pip (Emacspeak User’s Manual

Sandbox for https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
pipx install piper-tts.
Set location of voice data in pip-data-dir. Default is ~/.local/share/voices-piper
;; Create the data directory above if needed.
Run piper there using the –update-voices flag once for each desired voice to get the voice models.
M-x pip-speak to speak.
At present piper is not suitable for use as a primary TTS engine for Emacspeak, given its high latency.
However it might be interesting to use it for lower-priority speech where quality trumps latency.

Command: pip-device-select (device) ¶

Select default from available choices.
Restarts piper pipeline if already running.

(fn DEVICE)

Command: pip-model-select (voice) ¶

Select default from available choices.
Restarts piper pipeline if already running.

(fn VOICE)

Command: pip-speak (text) ¶

Speak text

(fn TEXT)

Command: pip-start ¶

Start the Piper process

Command: pip-stop ¶

Stop Piper TTS