MaryTTS

The marytts text-to-speech integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] uses MaryTTS text-to-speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.

Configuration

To enable text-to-speech with MaryTTS, add the following lines to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. The integration is now shown on the integrations page under Settings > Devices & services. Its entities are listed on the integration card itself and on the Entities tab.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: marytts

Configuration Variables

host string (Optional, default: localhost)

The MaryTTS server hostname or IP address.

port integer (Optional, default: 59125)

The MaryTTS server port.

codec string (Optional, default: WAVE_FILE)

The audio codec. Supported codecs are AIFF_FILE, AU_FILE and WAVE_FILE.

voice string (Optional)

The speaker voice.

Default:

cmu-slt-hsmm

language string (Optional, default: en_US)

The language to use. Supported languages are de, en_GB, en_US, fr, it, lb, ru, sv, te and tr.

effect map (Optional)

A dictionary of effects which should be applied to the speech output.

See documentation for details.

Speech effects

For more information about the different effects take a look at the demo page of your MaryTTS installation (http://localhost:59125/).

There you can read about each effect and also test them on the fly.

Full configuration example

A full configuration sample including optional variables:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: marytts
    host: "localhost"
    port: 59125
    codec: "WAVE_FILE"
    voice: "cmu-slt-hsmm"
    language: "en_US"
    effect:
      Volume: "amount:2.0;"
      TractScaler: "amount:1.5;"
      F0Scale: "f0Scale:2.0;"
      F0Add: "f0Add:50.0;"
      Rate: "durScale:1.5;"
      Robot: "amount:100.0;"
      Whisper: "amount:100.0;"
      Stadium: "amount:100.0"
      Chorus: "delay1:466;amp1:0.54;delay2:600;amp2:-0.10;delay3:250;amp3:0.30"
      FIRFilter: "type:3;fc1:500.0;fc2:2000.0"
      JetPilot: ""