Based on https://github.com/gmorenz/pico-tts, upstream changes are CC0. The Makefile started from https://github.com/DougGore/picopi/blob/master/pico/lib/Makefile though I've made extensive changes.
This repository uses submodules - to checkout completely, git submodule init, git submodule update. So, should upstream delete their repo we're out of luck - but this is otherwise a fairly simple and clean method of tracking dependencies.
To use the binary, simply pass text in over stdin and receive uncompressed PCM over stdout. Pipe to aplay -q -f S16_LE -r 16 to listen to it, or redirect to a file, whichever.
- Output file flag w/
-for stdout, so I don't throw garbage at the terminal without a warning- Might also guess if stdout is a TTY and whine - heuristics aren't perfect, but possibly adequate
- Possibly: include header files in
/usr/include, maybe rename library tolibttspico.so(for drop-in upgrades), and mark a conflict w/svox-pico-binfor an upgrade path