README.md

volumio2-plugin-text-to-speech

A Volumio plugin for text-to-speech using Amazon Polly.

Current features include automatic track announcement, a socket.io listener for messages to be read out loud ('tts-say' with payload {"text": "..."}) and one for announcing the current track ('tts-announce'). Works good with node-red.

Install will take a while, some dependencies need to be build. You'l need an AWS API key and secret, enter them in the plugin settings page. Voice is configurable, see API docs for valid ids.

Make sure you're able to play multiple simultaneous audio sources, for me this config works (Odroid C1, usb soundcard):

file /etc/asound.conf

pcm.custom
{
    type plug
    slave
    {
        pcm "dmix:2,0"
    }
}

ctl.custom
{
    type hw
    card card2
}

file /etc/mpd.conf

...
audio_output {
     type          "alsa"
     name          "alsa"
}
...

Install dev version

• clone repo to /data/plugins/miscellanea/text_to_speech
• run install.sh
• activate plugin and configure