brailcom/speechd

module request: piper

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#866 opened on Nov 6, 2023

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Description

piper is 'a fast, local neural text to speech system' (samples here). it would be nice to have speechd support this as well.

cross-post: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/265

/cc @Elleo who has done some work integrating these thru pied.

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Research direction
Study the piper command line interface and its API, examine an existing speechd module (e.g., espeak ng) as a template, and implement a new module that invokes piper.
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