KENZY: Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
group	str	None	Device membership group
location	str	None	Location, e.g. "Living Room"
model.type	str	speecht5	Options are: festival, speecht5
model.target	str	gpu	SpeechT5 options: gpu, cpu
speaker	str	slt	SpeechT5 options: slt, clb, bdl, ksp, rms, jmk
external_player	str	None	External player command
cache.folder	str	~/.kenzy/cache/speech	Folder for caching spoken phrases
offline	bool	false	Will disable downloading the models

The model type of speecht5 uses the microsoft/speecht5_tts model from Huggingface.co. The festival option calls the external festival program.

Note: You should consider only setting offline after you have executed the program at least once so that it fully downloads all model files. Once they are downloaded you can switch the offline mode on so that it does not try to re-download the models (which enables the program to then run without an Internet connection).

The external_player option allows you to specify a program like paplay that can play wave files rather than using the built-in pythonic player.

Example YAML file

See Service Settings for options in the service group.

type: kenzy.tts

device: 
  location:                 Living Room
  group:                    Primary
  model.type:               speecht5
  model.target:             cpu
  speaker:                  slt
  cache.folder:             ~/.kenzy/cache/speech

service:
  host:                     0.0.0.0
  port:                     9702

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