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Which selfhosted TTS provider should I use with home assistant? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Title question mostly. I've played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I'm wondering if folks are using anything else special. I'd like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant's voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google? Have you verified that?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Have a look at the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_translate/

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The docs don't say it's completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?

This comment:

Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.

doesn't say it doesn't call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn't use translation services. I didn't see anything else that implies it doesn't send data to Google.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If it doesn't require an API key in the config, it's offline. My HA works totally offline unless I need to do updates, and it's always worked for me.

You can also view the code, cuz open source.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

👍 Thanks. I'm surprised, and still skeptical, but thanks.

[–] un_ax@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I was curious and it uses gTTS.

It calls what's probably the "speak" button on translate.google.com

This project is leveraging the undocumented Google Translate speech functionality

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, so I dug into it, and it's definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you'll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it's blocked.

I'm not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn't calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it's using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.