Nabu Casa Cloud TTS
The Cloud TTS service allows you to have text read aloud with natural sounding voices. This service is automatically enabled when you are signed in to your Nabu Casa cloud account.
Language options may change from time to time, so if you are missing options which are shown on this page, make sure you are running the latest version of Home Assistant.
Using Nabu Casa Cloud TTS in an automation
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To try Nabu Casa Cloud TTS, go to System > Home Assistant Cloud.
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Select the language and voice.
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To view a greeting sample, select Try.
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Select a compatible media player or the browser and select Play.
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If you want to use this directly in an automation, select Create automation. Result: The content will be used in an action of an automation.
- You can now edit the rest of the automation.
Testing the TTS service
Another way to test the Nabu Casa Cloud text-to-speech service is by calling it from the Media.
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To test the TTS service, go to Media.
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Select Text-to-speech.
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Select Cloud.
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Enter the text you want to hear. -
- Select the language.
- Enter options, such as a voice preference.
- On the bottom of the page, select the media player.
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To listen to the text, select Say.
List of supported languages
The supported languages are listed below. Some of the languages have multiple voices.
| Neural voices by language | Locale |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans (South Africa) | af-ZA |
| Albanian (Albania) | sq-AL |
| American English | en-US |
| Amharic (Ethiopia) | am-ET |
| Arabic (Algeria) | ar-DZ |
| Arabic (Bahrain) | ar-BH |
| Arabic (Egypt) | ar-EG |
| Arabic (Iraq) | ar-IQ |
| Arabic (Jordan) | ar-JO |
| Arabic (Kuwait) | ar-KW |
| Arabic (Lebanon) | ar-LB |
| Arabic (Libya) | ar-LY |
| Arabic (Morocco) | ar-MA |
| Arabic (Oman) | ar-OM |
| Arabic (Qatar) | ar-QA |
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA |
| Arabic (Syria) | ar-SY |
| Arabic (Tunisia) | ar-TN |
| Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | ar-AE |
| Arabic (Yemen) | ar-YE |
| Armenian (Armenia) | hy-AM |
| Australian English | en-AU |
| Austrian German | de-AT |
| Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan) | az-AZ |
| Bangla (Bangladesh) | bn-BD |
| Bangla (India) | bn-IN |
| Basque (Spain) | eu-ES |
| Bosnian (Bosnia & Herzegovina) | bs-BA |
| Brazilian Portuguese | pt-BR |
| British English | en-GB |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg-BG |
| Burmese (Myanmar [Burma]) | my-MM |
| Canadian English | en-CA |
| Canadian French | fr-CA |
| Cantonese (China) | yue-CN |
| Catalan (Spain) | ca-ES |
| Chinese (China) | zh-CN |
| Chinese (China, HENAN) | zh-CN-henan |
| Chinese (China, LIAONING) | zh-CN-liaoning |
| Chinese (China, SHAANXI) | zh-CN-shaanxi |
| Chinese (China, SHANDONG) | zh-CN-shandong |
| Chinese (China, SICHUAN) | zh-CN-sichuan |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh-HK |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW |
| Croatian (Croatia) | hr-HR |
| Czech (Czechia) | cs-CZ |
| Danish (Denmark) | da-DK |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL |
| English (Hong Kong) | en-HK |
| English (India) | en-IN |
| English (Ireland) | en-IE |
| English (Kenya) | en-KE |
| English (New Zealand) | en-NZ |
| English (Nigeria) | en-NG |
| English (Philippines) | en-PH |
| English (Singapore) | en-SG |
| English (South Africa) | en-ZA |
| English (Tanzania) | en-TZ |
| Estonian (Estonia) | et-EE |
| European Portuguese | pt-PT |
| European Spanish | es-ES |
| Filipino (Philippines) | fil-PH |
| Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI |
| Flemish | nl-BE |
| French (Belgium) | fr-BE |
| French (France) | fr-FR |
| Galician (Spain) | gl-ES |
| Georgian (Georgia) | ka-GE |
| German (Germany) | de-DE |
| Greek (Greece) | el-GR |
| Gujarati (India) | gu-IN |
| Hebrew (Israel) | he-IL |
| Hindi (India) | hi-IN |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU |
| Icelandic (Iceland) | is-IS |
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | id-ID |
| Irish (Ireland) | ga-IE |
| Italian (Italy) | it-IT |
| Japanese (Japan) | ja-JP |
| Javanese (Indonesia) | jv-ID |
| Kannada (India) | kn-IN |
| Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | kk-KZ |
| Khmer (Cambodia) | km-KH |
| Korean (South Korea) | ko-KR |
| Lao (Laos) | lo-LA |
| Latvian (Latvia) | lv-LV |
| Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lt-LT |
| Macedonian (North Macedonia) | mk-MK |
| Malay (Malaysia) | ms-MY |
| Malayalam (India) | ml-IN |
| Maltese (Malta) | mt-MT |
| Marathi (India) | mr-IN |
| Mexican Spanish | es-MX |
| Mongolian (Mongolia) | mn-MN |
| Nepali (Nepal) | ne-NP |
| Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) | nb-NO |
| Pashto (Afghanistan) | ps-AF |
| Persian (Iran) | fa-IR |
| Polish (Poland) | pl-PL |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-RU |
| Serbian (Serbia) | sr-RS |
| Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | si-LK |
| Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK |
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl-SI |
| Somali (Somalia) | so-SO |
| Spanish (Argentina) | es-AR |
| Spanish (Bolivia) | es-BO |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-CL |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-CO |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | es-CR |
| Spanish (Cuba) | es-CU |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | es-DO |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | es-EC |
| Spanish (El Salvador) | es-SV |
| Spanish (Equatorial Guinea) | es-GQ |
| Spanish (Guatemala) | es-GT |
| Spanish (Honduras) | es-HN |
| Spanish (Nicaragua) | es-NI |
| Spanish (Panama) | es-PA |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | es-PY |
| Spanish (Peru) | es-PE |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-PR |
| Spanish (United States) | es-US |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | es-UY |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | es-VE |
| Sundanese (Indonesia) | su-ID |
| Swahili (Kenya) | sw-KE |
| Swahili (Tanzania) | sw-TZ |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE |
| Swiss French | fr-CH |
| Swiss High German | de-CH |
| Tamil (India) | ta-IN |
| Tamil (Malaysia) | ta-MY |
| Tamil (Singapore) | ta-SG |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | ta-LK |
| Telugu (India) | te-IN |
| Thai (Thailand) | th-TH |
| Turkish (Türkiye) | tr-TR |
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | uk-UA |
| Urdu (India) | ur-IN |
| Urdu (Pakistan) | ur-PK |
| Uzbek (Uzbekistan) | uz-UZ |
| Vietnamese (Vietnam) | vi-VN |
| Welsh (United Kingdom) | cy-GB |
| Zulu (South Africa) | zu-ZA |
| wuu (China) | wuu-CN |