Clone piper and use the

/opt directory

mkdir -p /opt/bin/piper/

sudo chown -R user /opt/bin/piper/

sudo apt install cmake

git clone https://github.com/rhasspy/piper.git

cd piper/

make

cp install/piper* /opt/bin/piper/

cp install/lib* /opt/bin/piper/

exec /opt/bin/piper/piper

Voices

sudo apt install git-lfs

git lfs install

git clone https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices

cd piper-voices

Test voice

echo 'This sentence is spoken first. This sentence is synthesized while the first sentence is spoken.' |\

exec /opt/bin/piper/piper \

--model ~/git/piper-voices/en/en_GB/southern_english_female/low/en_GB-southern_english_female-low.onnx \

--output voice.wav