Local TTS options inside Docker

[kngharv (Harvey King)]

I have filed a formal feature request to bake picotts native library into the home assistant docker image itself so all we have to do is add picotts into the configuration.yaml file and do nothing else.

By having such library built-in, home assistant will have a text-to-speech feature that doesn’t require any cloud services.

Since picotts is relatively small, mature, and already being ported to various different types of computers, it is relatively easy for the developer to do this.

If you want a off-line text-to-speech feature baked into home-assistant, please go to the website and vote for such feature to get developers’ attention:

Integrate native picotts library into hass.io / home assistant docker image

Current picotts component require the native library to be installed on the underlying operating system. For those who uses hass.io or docker image, this is not a very convenient proposition and ask user to deal with libaries at the OS level defeat the purpose of having hass.io and/or docker image. Since picotts is a mature and small library (~100kb on x64 platform) and library has been ported to x86/64 and ARM architectures. Integrating this library should be relatively straight forward, an…

Thanks in advance

Harv