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Text To Speech

Text to speech (TTS) is a feature that allows you to play synthesized speech from text. This feature is useful for bots that need to communicate with users.

caution

You may want to use the Lavasrc plugin instead of the Google Cloud TTS plugin as you require a Google Cloud API key to use the Google Cloud TTS plugin. Lavasrc uses Flowery TTS which is a free and open source TTS engine. However, Google Cloud TTS offers more options to configure.

Installation​

For using text to speech, you need to install the Lavalink4NET.Integrations.TextToSpeech package.

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You need to have the Google Cloud TTS Plugin installed on your Lavalink server.

Usage​

The text to speech integration provides an extension method which hooks into the ITrackManager interface. You can use this method to play text as speech:

var track = await audioService.Tracks
    .GetTextToSpeechTrackAsync("Say hello!")
    .ConfigureAwait(false);

await player
    .PlayAsync(track!)
    .ConfigureAwait(false);