[arm-allstar] another possibility for local TTS

[Patrick Perdue]

Greetings:

I am always looking around for local TTS options that can run on ARM, as 
I really don't like the voices from VoiceRSS. PSST, they're just renamed 
Microsoft One Core voices...

To that end, I came across an interesting project, which is a neural 
engine with a small CPU footprint, designed to run on various platforms. 
It may be worth looking into for something.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Looks like it's only built for AMD64 and ARM64, so it may not be able to 
run on a HamVoIP install, but could still be used with a HamVoIP system 
in combination with another X64 or ARM64 machine. I am doing a similar 
thing using a HamVoIP node to drive a TTS engine installed on a remote 
X64 system, which spits raw ULAW back to the HamVoIP node via stdout.

73

N2DYI