TTS Configuration

TTS plugins are responsible for converting text into audio for playback.

List of TTS Plugins

Advanced TTS Plugin Documentation

Several TTS engines have different configuration settings for optimizing its use. Several have different voices to use, or you can specify a TTS server to use.

We will cover basic configuration of the default TTS engine ovos-tts-server-plugin.

All changes will be made in the User configuration file, eg. ~/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf.

Open the file for editing. nano ~/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf.

If your file is empty, or does not have a "tts" section, you need to create it. Add this to your config

{
    "tts": {
        "module": "ovos-tts-server-plugin",
        "fallback_module": "ovos-tts-plugin-piper",
        "ovos-tts-server-plugin": {
            "host": "https://pipertts.ziggyai.online",
            "voice": "alan-low"
        }
        "ovos-tts-plugin-piper": {}
    }
}

Sections explained

"module" - This is where you specify what TTS plugin to use. - ovos-tts-server-plugin in this example. - This plugin, by default, uses a random selection of public TTS servers provided by the OVOS community. With no "host" provided, one of those will be used. - You can still change your voice without changing the "host". The default voice is "alan-low", or the Mycroft original voice `"Alan Pope".

Changing your assistant's voice

"fallback_module" - If by chance your first TTS engine fails, OVOS will try to use this one. It is usually configured to use an on device engine so that you always have some output even if you are disconnected from the internet.

"ovos-tts-server-plugin"

"ovos-tts-plugin-piper" - Specify specific plugin settings here. Multiple entries are allowed. If an empty dict is provided, {}, the plugin will use its default values.

Refer to the TTS github repository for specifications on each plugin

List of TTS plugins

Plugin	Offline	Type
ovos-tts-server-plugin	no	API (self hosted)
ovos-tts-plugin-piper	yes	API (self hosted)
ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3	yes	FOSS
ovos-tts-plugin-mimic	yes	FOSS
ovos-tts-plugin-mimic2	no	API (free)
ovos-tts-plugin-marytts	no	API (self hosted)
neon-tts-plugin-larynx_server	no	API (self hosted)
ovos-tts-plugin-pico	yes	FOSS
neon-tts-plugin-glados	yes	FOSS
neon-tts-plugin-mozilla_local	yes	FOSS
neon-tts-plugin-polly	no	API (key)
ovos-tts-plugin-voicerss	no	API (key)
ovos-tts-plugin-google-TX	no	API (free)
ovos-tts-plugin-responsivevoice	no	API (free)
neon-tts-plugin-mozilla_remote	no	API (self hosted)
neon-tts-plugin-tacotron2	yes	FOSS
ovos-tts-plugin-espeakNG	yes	FOSS
ovos-tts-plugin-cotovia	yes	FOSS
ovos-tts-plugin-catotron	no	API (self hosted)
ovos-tts-plugin-softcatala	no	API (self hosted)
ovos-tts-plugin-SAM	yes	Abandonware
ovos-tts-plugin-beepspeak	yes	Fun