Yandex TTS
The yandextts
text-to-speech platform uses Yandex SpeechKit Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices.
Configuration
To enable text-to-speech with Yandex SpeechKit, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml
:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: yandextts
api_key: THE_API_KEY
Configuration Variables
- api_key
(string)(Required)
The API Key for use this service.
- language
-
(string)(Optional)
The language to use. Supported languages are
en-US
,ru-RU
,uk-UK
andtr-TR
.Default value:
en-US
- codec
-
(string)(Optional)
The audio codec. Supported codecs are
mp3
,wav
andopus
.Default value:
mp3
- voice
-
(string)(Optional)
The speaker voice. Supported female voices are
jane
,oksana
,alyss
,omazh
,silaerkan
,nastya
,sasha
,tanya
,tatyana_abramova
,voicesearch
, andzombie
. Male voices arezahar
,ermil
,levitan
,ermilov
,kolya
,kostya
,nick
,erkanyavas
,zhenya
,anton_samokhvalov
,ermil_with_tuning
,robot
,dude
, andsmoky
.Default value:
zahar
- emotion
-
(string)(Optional)
The speaker emotional intonation. Supported emotions are
good
(friendly),evil
(angry) andneutral
Default value:
neutral
- speed
-
(float)(Optional)
The speech speed. Highest speed is
3
and lowest0,1
Default value:
1
Please check the API documentation for details. It seems that the English version of documentation is outdated. You could request an API key by email or online.
Full configuration example
The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: yandextts
api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
language: 'ru-RU'
codec: mp3
voice: oksana
emotion: evil
speed: 2