Piper-mode – Text-to-speech for Emacs using the Piper TTS engine

What it does

A vibe-coded text-to-speech for Emacs using the Piper TTS engine. Features natural-sounding voice synthesis, multiple voice commands, and automatic setup. Designed for macOS/Apple Silicon. - GitHub - snowy-0wl/piper-mode: A vibe-coded text-to-speech for Emacs using the Piper TTS engine. Features natural-sounding voice synthesis, multiple voice commands, and automatic setup. Designed for macOS/Appl

Text-to-speech for Emacs using the Piper TTS engine. Provides high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis. ( use-package piper-mode :straight (piper-mode :type git :host github :repo " snowy-0wl/piper-mode " ; ; We only need the Elisp files and setup script. ; ; Binaries/models are downloaded to ~/.emacs.d/piper-tts/ automatically. :files ( " *.el " " setup-piper.sh " )) :custom ; ; Set your preferred voice model (will be auto-downloaded on first use) (piper-voice-model " en_US-joe-medium.onnx " ) :config (piper-mode)) On first use, it will automatically: git clone https://github.com/snowy-0wl/piper-mode.git Add to your Emacs configuration: ( add-to-list 'load-path " /path/to/piper-mode…from github.com

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