Chapter 7PiSpeak
The Pi 4 is remarkably powerful hardware, considering its diminutive size and relatively low cost. And yet, if you were to only use that computing power for monitoring occasional changes in sensors, a lot of compute cycles would be wasted. The purpose of this project is to give your Pi something to do during the off-hours that will hopefully make you more productive and even smarter when you’re not sleeping.
The objective of the PiSpeak project is to retrieve the latest news using RSS feeds and use a text-to-speech (TTS) engine to convert those feeds into a single MP3 file that can be easily synced with a cloud storage service. Then that MP3 file can be downloaded to a smartphone and configured for playback in a smartphone ...
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