Piper Read is a small GUI utility for Windows, that utilizes Piper. It will read aloud the contents of the input window.

Features:

• Read content aloud
• Many voices to choose from
• Change Piper TTS voice model
• Control Piper TTS speech rate
• Pause / Resume / Stop
• Prevent keywords being read (ignore.dict)
• Prevent lines with keywords being read (banned.dict)
• Replace keywords with alternatives (replace.dict)
• Open text files

Prerequisites:

.Net 8.0 Desktop Runtime is required to be installed.

Install:

• Download the latest version of Piper Read from releases.
• Grab the latest Windows binary for Piper from here. Voice models are available here.
• Extract all of the above into the same directory.

Configuration:

Piper Tray should support all available Piper voice models, by default en_US-libritts_r-medium.onnx and .json are expected to be present in directory.

Changing Voice Model:

Click on the voice name at the bottom of the application and select from another voice from the list. No restart necessary!

Dictionary Rules:

Keywords found in the ignore.dict file are skipped over.

If a keyword in the banned.dict file is detected, the entire line is skipped.

replace.dict functions as a replacement for a keyword or phrase, i.e LHC=Large Hadron Collider

Support:

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