My first Custom Component: Google Cloud TTS

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I’m a fan of Google Cloud TTS, but the problem that “we only use 1 voice name at the same time”, that’s now I’m create the first component Google Cloud TTS to do it

This is the example of speaking using this Service

script:
  gg_reading_01:  #May be from your script name
    sequence:  
    - service: tts_ggcloud.say
      data_template:
        entity_id: media_player.van_phong  #May be from your entity speaker
        message: "Your text input here" #May be from your input_text
        speed: '1.0' #May be from your input_number
        pitch: '0' #May be from your input_number
        language: "vi-VN" #May be from your input_select
        voice_name: "vi-VN-Wavenet-A"  #May be from your input_select

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Tks for reading!

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sorry, but I didn’t understand. What the custom component allows us to do?

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By the looks of it, it enables a TTS service built on more natural sounding wavenet voices than the default google tts service (which I think uses google translate).

Benefits are better sounding, more control over intonation, delays etc, lots of voices to choose from and different nationalities.

It probably needs a google API key, which is limited to a certain volume of characters before you have to pay. However, that limit is pretty high, I use it through node-red for announcements around the house and never come close.

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Now I understood. Thanks :slight_smile:

Do you know what is the limit of the number of characters before we have to pay?

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If I read it right, it’s 1m characters per month before you pay, that includes all the characters in the message (e.g. control characters, headers etc.) not just those that are spoken.

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This custom component enable multiple Google Cloud TTS Voice at the same time, for example with Vietnamese language (languageCode = vi-VN) we can select 1 of 8 voices at the same time

voice_list = {'Google_Voice_1': 'vi-VN-Wavenet-A', 'Google_Voice_2': 'vi-VN-Wavenet-B', 'Google_Voice_3': 'vi-VN-Wavenet-C', 'Google_Voice_4': 'vi-VN-Wavenet-D', 'Google_Voice_5': 'vi-VN-Standard-A', 'Google_Voice_6': 'vi-VN-Standard-B', 'Google_Voice_7':'vi-VN-Standard-C' , 'Google_Voice_8':'vi-VN-Standard-D'}
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