Pied makes it simple to install and manage text-to-speech voices.
Pied installs and configures the Piper neural text-to-speech engine to work with Speech Dispatcher. It can then be used to download and manage different voices.
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
On a Raspberry Pi running the latest version of Raspbian snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
You will also need to reboot your device:
sudo reboot
After this, install the core snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install core
Install Pied
To install Pied, simply use the following command: