linto-tts-module

The goal of this project is to provide a voice to LinTO Maker through Pico. It communicates the other elements using MQTT protocol.

Introduction

linto-tts-module a communication layer meant to provide a voice by reading MQTT messages from a dedicated topic and synthezing speech using picotts and sox.

Getting started

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required: picotts and sox.


sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils sox

Installation

Two option tu use the tts-module:

Use the binary release package
Download the repository and use it as it is.

Binary

It is a binary built using pyinstaller that comes with all python dependecies included.

x86_64: Here
Armv7l: Here

From source

Download the repository

git clone https://github.com/linto-ai/linto-tts-module

Several python library are required:

#[Virtual environment if you want it]
pip install pyaudio wave paho-mqtt tenacity

Usage

usage: {linto_tts|tts_client.py} [-h] [--debug]

Text To Speech Module. Read text from MQTT broker and output it using picotts.

optional arguments:

  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

  --debug     Prompt debug

The executable comes alongside a .env_default file that contains its parameters. You can override those parameters using a .env file and you can overide those formers by using environment variables.

Parameters are:

TT_LANG: Language to be used by pico. Supported languages are ['en-US', 'en-GB', 'fr-FR', 'es-ES', 'de-DE', 'it-IT'] (default fr-FR)
MQTT_LOCAL_HOST: MQTT local broker address (default localhost)
MQTT_LOCAL_PORT: MQTT local broker port (default 1883)

Exemple:

echo TTS_LANG=en-US > .env && ./linto_tts --debug
            or
TTS_LANG=en-UK ./command --debug

Built using

Tenacity - General-purpose retrying library
paho-mqtt - MQTT client library.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU AFFERO License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

linto-ai / linto-tts-module