Chime TTS is a custom Home Assistant integration that eliminates the audio lag between playing a chime/notification sound effect before a TTS audio notification.
Chime TTS is a custom Home Assistant integration that locally combines TTS audio and sound effects into seamless audio for playback in a single service call, eliminating the lag. Chime TTS includes a suite of options to further customize the audio.
Chime TTS solves this issue by stitching the audio files together as a single file locally on your Home Assistant device, and played to your speakers in a single event, eliminating any lag.
Chime TTS offers various features that enhance TTS audio playback experience:
chime_tts.say
and chime_tts.say_url
services in automations and scripts.Follow these easy steps to get started with Chime TTS:
Chime TTS adds 4 new services to your Home Assistant instance: chime_tts.say
, chime_tts.say_url
, chime_tts.replay
and chime_tts.clear_cache
. Discover how you can use these services and the features they offer:
chime_tts.say
: Play audio and TTS messages with various settings.chime_tts.say_url
: Generates a publicly accessible URL to the MP3 file generated by chime_tts.say
.chime_tts.replay
: Repeats the previous service call made to chime_tts.say
.chime_tts.clear_cache
: Clear generated audio cache.For configuration, examples and documentation check out the official Chime TTS site.
For questions, suggestions, and community discussion about Chime TTS, visit our Community Forum.