Cogai TTS using docker & script placed at ~/.local/bin/tts

tts

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Test: `echo "This should be read up for me" | tts`

# Read all input into variable and replace newlines with spaces
input=$(cat | tr '\n' ' ')

# Save current time in ISO8601 format and replace special characters with underscore
timestamp=$(date -u +"%Y_%m_%dT%H_%M_%SZ")

# Run the Docker command with CPU version

# https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/discussions/1891
vits_speaker_idx="p234" # Pretty smooth British male voice.
docker run --rm -v ~/tts-output:/root/tts-output \
    ghcr.io/coqui-ai/tts-cpu \
    --out_path "/root/tts-output/$timestamp.wav" \
    --model_name "tts_models/en/vctk/vits" \
    --speaker_idx "$vits_speaker_idx" \
    --text "$input"