diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7075335..63e7ef5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ ![Piper logo](etc/logo.png) -A fast, local neural text to speech system. +A fast, local neural text to speech system that is meant to sound good and run reasonably fast on the Raspberry Pi 4. ``` sh echo 'Welcome to the world of speech synthesis!' | \ ./piper --model en-us-blizzard_lessac-medium.onnx --output_file welcome.wav ``` +Voices are trained with [VITS](https://github.com/jaywalnut310/vits/) and exported to the [onnxruntime](https://onnxruntime.ai/). + ## Voices +Our goal is to support Home Assistant and the [Year of Voice](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/). + Download voices from [the release](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/releases/tag/v0.0.2). Supported languages: @@ -28,13 +32,6 @@ Supported languages: * Vietnamese (vi) -## Purpose - -Piper (formally Larynx 2) is meant to sound good and run reasonably fast on the Raspberry Pi 4. - -Voices are trained with [VITS](https://github.com/jaywalnut310/vits/) and exported to the [onnxruntime](https://onnxruntime.ai/). - - ## Installation Download a release: