Piper

by Open Home Foundation

An ultra-light local text-to-speech engine with ready-made voices in many languages.

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What it does

French, English, Spanish voices and many more to download
Command line, web server and Python or C/C++ API
Voice engine of Home Assistant; you can train your own voices

Install it

Requirements: Python 3.

Install with pip

pip install piper-tts

Command-line usage guide

https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/CLI.md

The prompt for your agent

Paste it into your coding agent: it checks the requirements and installs it for you.

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Prompt

Install Piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) on my machine.
1. Check the requirements: Python 3. If anything is missing, tell me before installing anything.
2. Follow the official method:
- Install with pip: pip install piper-tts
- see https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/CLI.md
3. Check that it works, then explain how to launch it and where to start.

Always review what your agent is about to run, especially install commands.