Piper Text-to-Speech Skill

This skill enables you to use Piper TTS to convert text files or text input into natural-sounding speech audio files.

Installation

Piper has been installed via uv with Python 3.13:

uv tool install --python 3.13 piper-tts

The piper executable is located at: /Users/katiemulliken/.local/bin/piper

Voice Models

Voice models are stored in ~/piper-voices/.

Currently installed voices:

• en_US-amy-medium: Natural-sounding US English female voice