I re-imaged MyCroft to hopefully fix an issue. When I go to the settings to select the Google voice (one I was using before re-image), it is not available.
How can I get the Google voice setup again?
You now have to manually configure it. I believe you got this answered in chat. For anyone else, it’s been disabled by default:
opened 12:29PM - 10 Aug 21 UTC
closed 06:39AM - 07 Sep 21 UTC
originally opened in the OVOS plugin repo
> I've just posted an issue about p… otential legal issues with this API in the gTTS repo: [pndurette/gTTS#309](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/issues/309)
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> From the plugin description people will only understand that the service can break anytime but there are more risks. Imagine someone will build a system that goes into "production" with this plugin active (you know how people are ^^) and commercializes it. In the best case Google will just ask the owner to shut it down, in the worst case they will get sued :-/.
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> Personally I don't think an undocumented and unstable API moving in a legal gray area should be included in a system called OpenVoiceOS. For the same reasons it is not part of SEPIA OpenAssistant Framework.
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> That said I know first hand how hard it is to find an alternative that has comparable quality, is free (=self-hosted) and fast enough to run on Raspberry Pi etc., but I think services like gTTS are just a distraction on the path to become really "open"!
links:
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-tts-plugin-google-tx/issues/1
https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/issues/309
https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customizations/mycroft-conf
I did get an answer in chat as well. I don’t have it working as yet. It would be nice to have valid/updated steps to enable with the new location of configs, etc. I also understand it may not be possible to ‘officially’ list the steps due to legality.