[Idea] How About Replacing Azure Voice With PiperTTS ?

[codecooker1]

Well I'm currently working a kinda similar project like you and there I'm using the piper tts for the ai voice.
I actually found this project pretty interesting so I think it would be better to use open source for the tts too.
As piper is optimized forr using on Raspberry pi 4 it shouldn't have a huge performance impact.

_{PS. Sorry for the bad english}

[t41372]

I'm having some trouble installing PiperTTS on my local machine. There are some problems with piperTTS on macOS right now. I'll probably wait for it to be resolved.
rhasspy/piper#509
In the meantime, I have edited my garbage code to make adding and switching between TTS models easier.

[scalar27]

Not that I understand what he did, I think this person figured it out: DissonanceTK/MacReddy@5560b21

[t41372]

Looks pretty nice. I'll look into it.