Title question mostly. I’ve played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I’m wondering if folks are using anything else special. I’d like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant’s voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!
The docs don’t say it’s completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?
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Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.
doesn’t say it doesn’t call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn’t use translation services. I didn’t see anything else that implies it doesn’t send data to Google.
Yeah, so I dug into it, and it’s definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you’ll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it’s blocked.
I’m not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn’t calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it’s using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.
Don’t know much about the training side of things, but I have Piper set up with home assistant using the Wyoming protocol and it just goes. Some of the out-of-the-box voices are pretty decent too.
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if you need English - right now it’s kokoro-fastapi https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI set this container up and use it as an openai TTS endpoint using this hacs integration https://github.com/sfortis/openai_tts
Very nice! I’ll check this out!
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any personal preferences you recommend?
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Google? Have you verified that?
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The docs don’t say it’s completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?
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doesn’t say it doesn’t call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn’t use translation services. I didn’t see anything else that implies it doesn’t send data to Google.
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Yeah, so I dug into it, and it’s definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you’ll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it’s blocked.
I’m not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn’t calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it’s using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.
👍 Thanks. I’m surprised, and still skeptical, but thanks.
Don’t know much about the training side of things, but I have Piper set up with home assistant using the Wyoming protocol and it just goes. Some of the out-of-the-box voices are pretty decent too.
Piper works pretty well. I’m only using it because it was easier to find a custom glados voice.
Kokoro has good default voices. I also started trying out Speaches recently. It provides an open ai api wrapper around several options
Any tips on getting speaches to work with Home assistant? Got speaches working but haven’t gone the next step yet.