piper_ros

This repository provides a set of ROS 2 packages to integrate piper TTS (Text-to-Speech) into ROS 2 using audio_common 4.0.6.

ROS 2 Distro	Branch	Build status	Docker Image	Documentation
Humble	main
Iron	main
Jazzy	main
Kilted	main
Rolling	main

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Docker
3. Usage

Installation

To run piper_ros follow the next commands:

cd ~/ros2_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/mgonzs13/audio_common.git
git clone https://github.com/mgonzs13/piper_ros.git
cd ~/ros2_ws
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
colcon build

Docker

You can build the piper_ros docker:

docker build -t piper_ros .

Then, you can run the docker container:

docker run -it --rm --device /dev/snd piper_ros

Usage

ros2 launch piper_bringup piper.launch.py

ros2 action send_goal /say audio_common_msgs/action/TTS "{'text': 'Hello World from ros 2'}"

Spanish Example

ros2 launch piper_bringup piper.launch.py model_filename:="es/es_ES/carlfm/x_low/es_ES-carlfm-x_low.onnx"

ros2 action send_goal /say audio_common_msgs/action/TTS "{'text': 'Hola Mundo desde ros 2'}"