RHVoice component for Home Assistant

The rhvoice integration uses RHVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.

Installation

1. Run rhvoice-rest Docker container (choose your CPU architecture):

   aarch64: docker run -d -p 8080:8080 aculeasis/rhvoice-rest:arm64v8

   armv7l: docker run -d -p 8080:8080 aculeasis/rhvoice-rest:arm32v7

   x86_64: docker run -d -p 8080:8080 aculeasis/rhvoice-rest:amd64

2. Install the integration to Home Assistant: use HACS or copy the contents of custom_components/rhvoice/ to <your config dir>/custom_components/rhvoice/.

3. Configure in the Home Assistant configuration.yaml (See the Configuration and Configuration Options sections below)

4. Restart Home Assistant.

Configuration

To enable text-to-speech with RHVoice, add at a minimum the following lines to your Home Assistant's configuration.yaml file:

tts:
  - platform: rhvoice
    host: <server hostname, domain name or IP address>
    port: 8080

Full configuration example:

tts:
  - platform: rhvoice
    host: <server hostname or IP address>
    port: 8080
    format: 'mp3'
    pitch: 50
    rate: 50
    voice: 'anna'
    volume: 50

Configuration Options

• host: (string) (Required)

  This is the hostname, domain name or IP address that the rhvoice-rest container can be reached at. If you use domain name that is reachable on the Internet for Home Assistant, enter that here.

• port: (string) (Optional)

  This is the port that the rhvoice-rest container can be reached at.

  Default value: 8080

• ssl: (boolean) (Optional)

  Use HTTPS instead of HTTP to connect.

  Default value: false

• verify_ssl: (boolean) (Optional)

  Enable or disable SSL certificate verification. Set to false if you have a self-signed SSL certificate and haven't installed the CA certificate to enable verification.

  Default value: true

• format: (string) (Optional)

  This is the file format used for the TTS files created.

  Default value: mp3

  Allowed values: wav|mp3|opus|flac

• pitch: (string) (Optional)

  This adjust the sound frequency of the TTS voice, lower or higher.

  Default value: 50

  Allowed values: 0 to 100

• rate: (string) (Optional)

  This adjust the talking speed of the TTS voice, slower or faster.

  Default value: 50

  Allowed values: 0 to 100

• voice: (string) (Optional)

  This is the voice that is used to create the TTS files. Voices are connected with a language. For best results select a voice for the text language you will use.

  Default value: anna (russian)

  Allowed values:

  Language	Voices
  American English	alan, bdl, clb, evgeniy-eng, slt
  Esperanto	spomenka
  Georgian	natia
  Kyrgyz	azamat, nazgul
  Macedonian	kiko
  Brazilian Portuguese	letícia-f123
  Russian	aleksandr, anna, arina, artemiy, elena, evgeniy-rus, irina, pavel, yuriy, victoria
  Tatar	talgat
  Ukrainian	anatol, natalia , volodymyr

• volume: (string) (Optional)

  This adjusts the volume of the voice in TTS files created, softer or louder.

  Default value: 50

  Allowed values: 0 to 100

Tips

You can override configuration with service options

service: tts.rhvoice_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.main
  message: The cake is a lie
  options:
    format: mp3
    pitch: 32
    rate: 64
    voice: slt
    volume: 16