Get TTS working in R with Reticulate on M1 or M2 MacOS

README.md

Make sure homebrew is all up to date.

Make sure you have venv working, I think it just comes with python3.

Start a brand new RStudio project and open it in RStudio.

In the terminal:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

In the terminal but make sure to copy the output:

which python

In the terminal:

brew install mecab
python -m pip install mecab-python3
python -m pip install TTS

In R:

Sys.setenv(RETICULATE_PYTHON = "[path result of which python]")
library(reticulate)
tts <- import("TTS.api")
tts$TTS$list_models()[1:5]

This just needs a library(reticulate) before tts <- import("TTS.api"), but otherwise, this works!

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One other comment:

In RStudio's Terminal, python -m venv .venv doesn't work: bash: python: command not found.
If you want to run this in RStudio, you need to add a 3: python3 -m venv .venv