Do you want your Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant to communicate using Text-to-Speech (TTS)? With the release of Home Assistant Core 2021.11, this is now achievable. Home Assistant can now read notifications, provide weather updates, and much more by simply connecting speakers to the 3.5 mm headphone jack of your Raspberry Pi.
Enabling Text-to-Speech on Your Raspberry Pi
This functionality is made possible by combining the updated VLC media player Telnet integration and the experimental VLC add-on from the official add-on store. Once you install the add-on, it will guide you through configuring Home Assistant as a media player. This configuration allows you to play local files, stream music from the internet, and now, use your Raspberry Pi as a TTS device.
