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OpenVoiceOS · Jan 30, 2025 · f23cd3e · f23cd3e
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commit f23cd3e
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/ovos_tts_plugin_piper/__init__.py b/ovos_tts_plugin_piper/__init__.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ def __init__(self, config=None):
         if isinstance(self.voice, list):
             self.voice = self.voice[0]
 
+        self.accent = self.config.get("accent", None)
         self.use_cuda = self.config.get("use_cuda", False)
         self.noise_scale = self.config.get("noise-scale")  # generator noise
         self.length_scale = self.config.get("length-scale")  # Phoneme length
@@ -171,7 +172,10 @@ def get_tts(self, sentence, wav_file, lang=None, voice=None, speaker=None):
             LOG.warning("Legacy Neon TTS signature found, pass speaker as a str")
             speaker = None
 
-        phonemizer_lang = None  # model's default accent
+        phonemizer_lang = None  # if None use model's default accent
+        if self.accent:
+            phonemizer_lang = get_espeak_voice(self.accent)
+
         if voice:
             # user requested a specific voice model to be used
             lang = lang or self.lang
@@ -184,7 +188,6 @@ def get_tts(self, sentence, wav_file, lang=None, voice=None, speaker=None):
                 # force a specific espeak phonemizer to match lang pronunciation
                 # this allows a voice to speak a different language a bit better
                 phonemizer_lang = get_espeak_voice(lang)
-                LOG.debug(f"Forcing Piper accent: {phonemizer_lang}")
                 engine, speaker, voice = self.lang2model(self.lang, self.voice)
             except:  # change to a voice that supports the lang
                 LOG.debug("Switching TTS model for one that supports target language")
@@ -193,6 +196,9 @@ def get_tts(self, sentence, wav_file, lang=None, voice=None, speaker=None):
             # default case, no specific voice or lang requested
             engine, speaker, voice = self.lang2model(self.lang, self.voice)
 
+        if phonemizer_lang:
+            LOG.debug(f"Forcing Piper accent: {phonemizer_lang}")
+
         with wave.open(wav_file, "wb") as f:
             engine.synthesize(sentence, f,
                               speaker_id=speaker,