Pico Text-to-Speech

The picotts text-to-speech platform uses offline pico Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices. This requires to install the pico tts library on the system, typically on debian just do sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils On some raspbian release, this package is missing but you can just copy the arm deb package from debian.

To enable text-to-speech with Pico, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts

Configuration variables:

• language (Optional): The language to use. Defaults to en-US. Supported languages : ‘en-US’, ‘en-GB’, ‘de-DE’, ‘es-ES’, ‘fr-FR’, ‘it-IT’

A full configuration sample:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts
    language: 'fr-FR'