Google's new TTS Service with better voices

[KidSquid (The Squid)]

Just wanted to share this…looks like Google has been improving their cloud based TTS service. You can now use the voice of Google Home and others.

Google's new text-to-speech service has more realistic voices

I wonder how much will need to be changed to make this compatible with the OH Google TTS binding?

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[luckymallari (Lucky)]

Which UI do you use? My HABPanel runs on Chrome, so pretty much all goodies from Google is automatic

[KidSquid (The Squid)]

Yes, That I understand but I’d like to use the OH Google TTS binding to take advantage of the new voices

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Thanks for posting. I’ll have to look into how to use these from Google AIY. I’ve never been super happy with the change between voices when the Assistant responds and when my TTS runs on it. 1 million characters in the free tier is orders of magnitude more than I would need.

[cweitkamp (Christoph Weitkamp)]

Did you see this thread? Maybe it helps. But I don’t know if it already supports the new features.

Google TTS addon for OH2

Hey, I found some spare time and tried to implement a Google TTS addon for OH 2. Something similar had been available for openhab 1 already but never was ported until now. I opened a pull request on Github, the ci-built jar can be downloaded here. It’s working fine for me, if you find this interesting and give it a try I’d be curious to hear how it went.

[KidSquid (The Squid)]

I had seen that, but this service just came out and I don’t think it works as the previous one.

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