Custom Voice announcement | Home Assistant | Page 1

wary pelican Mar 13, 2025, 12:56 AM

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I have a custom voice model enable in HA but whenever I try to have it do announcements it never seems to use the voice model I have setup. If I run the option to try to voice in HA it works fine, but when I try to use it to make announcements it does not seem to work. Not sure if I am just missing something, or I have it setup wrong.

For announcements I have it using piper and having it going through to the media player I want to use, just it never seems to translate correctly. Not sure what the next troubleshooting step should be.

bold remnant Mar 13, 2025, 1:04 AM

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the announce action uses the default tts settings of the pipeline used for the device. have you set the voice in the pipeline?

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alternatively you could use tts.speak to specify a voice something like this:

metadata: {}
data:
  cache: false
  media_player_entity_id: media_player.mk_room_voice_media_player_2
  options:
    voice: glados
  message: cake will be served at the conclusion of the test
target:
  entity_id: tts.piper
enabled: true```

wary pelican Mar 13, 2025, 1:07 AM

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Not quite sure how to setup the voice pipeline

bold remnant Mar 13, 2025, 1:07 AM

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what device are you outputting to?

wary pelican Mar 13, 2025, 1:09 AM

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In some instances a Sonos speaker in other a google chromecast device. As that is all I have currently for audio connected to HA

bold remnant Mar 13, 2025, 1:10 AM

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ok so not a voice satellite

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the tts.speak example i showed above is probably a good way to go

wary pelican Mar 13, 2025, 1:12 AM

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Okay, I will try that then. I haven't went a purchased a voice satellite yet, as I am still trying to get to work in a way the my family will like.

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