Based on https://github.com/gmorenz/pico-tts, upstream changes are CC0. The Makefile is based on https://github.com/DougGore/picopi with an implicit license, and is probably original enough now anyway.

This repository uses submodules - to checkout completely, git submodule init, git submodule update. So, should upstream delete their repo we're out of luck - but this is otherwise a fairly simple and clean method of tracking dependencies.

To use the binary, simply pass text in over stdin and receive uncompressed PCM over stdout. Pipe to aplay -q -f S16_LE -r 16 to listen to it, or redirect to a file, whichever.

TODO

• Output file flag w/- for stdout, so I don't throw garbage at the terminal without a warning
  • Might also guess if stdout is a TTY and whine - heuristics aren't perfect, but possibly adequate
• Possibly: include header files in /usr/include, maybe rename library to libttspico.so (for drop-in upgrades), and mark a conflict w/svox-pico-bin for an upgrade path