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KristjanESPERANTO

I’d like to share MMM-WebSpeechTTS – a text-to-speech service module that gives your MagicMirror a natural-sounding voice.

What it does

Startup greeting with current time
Keyboard shortcuts (press “g” for greeting, “t” for time, “s” to stop)
MMM-PublicTransportHafas integration – announce departures
Notification API – any module can trigger speech
Browser & Electron support

New: Piper Neural TTS

Just integrated Piper and the quality is incredible! Instead of robotic espeak voices, you get natural-sounding neural speech – free, offline, no cloud required.

Available for 50+ languages/voices including English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian…

Feedback

Would you use this?
What are your use cases?
What is missing?

Repository: https://github.com/KristjanESPERANTO/MMM-WebSpeechTTS

Looking forward to your feedback! 🙂

KristjanESPERANTO

@vgardenn Interesting. Your config works on my system.

Please show us your system information (you can see it when you run npm run start) - and looks like this:

[2026-01-19 21:07:04.407] [INFO]  [systeminformation] 
####  System Information  ####
- SYSTEM:   manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.; model: MS-7D75; virtual: false; MM: v2.35.0-develop
- OS:       platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: forky/sid; arch: x64; kernel: 6.17.13+deb14-amd64
- VERSIONS: electron: 39.2.7; used node: 25.0.0; installed node: 25.0.0; npm: 11.7.0; pm2: 6.0.14
- ENV:      XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland; MM_CONFIG_FILE: modules/MMM-Jast/config.demo.js
            WAYLAND_DISPLAY:  wayland-0; DISPLAY: :0; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined
- RAM:      total: 61884.49 MB; free: 52612.92 MB; used: 9271.57 MB
- OTHERS:   uptime: 60 minutes; timeZone: Europe/Berlin

KristjanESPERANTO

@pat59 Again my question: Why doesn’t Magic Mirror start in full screen mode? I think the problem is that neither VLC nor mplayer are inline in the Electron window. They are a separate window. And when you click on the Electron window the player window gets in the background.

KristjanESPERANTO

Hi @pat59,

why doesn’t Magic Mirror start in full screen mode? Can you show me the module config?

KristjanESPERANTO

@sdetweil Sure, it’s nice solution. But docker makes it a bit more difficult to troubleshot. If a new user takes the standard way, he probably would better understand how everything works and find the step where it fails.

KristjanESPERANTO

@mcirim Why did you choose mirror os? I think, it would be easier to use the normal Raspberry Pi OS and install MagicMirror the “standard way”.

BKeyport

… and following those recommendations allows you to learn better code and improve!

BKeyport

@Klinge You either have some logs that have exploded in size, or a corrupting SD card. Either way, I’d recommend a reformat and/or a new SD card.

KristjanESPERANTO

@Sn4Pz If your module works and may be useful for more people than you, it qualifies for the list. MagicMirror is a community project, and many module developers are not programmers - the quality (measured against professional programming standards) of some modules reflects this. But that’s not a problem; MagicMirror is a project to learn and tinker 😃 If someone finds an issue in your module, they can address it or even create a PR to improve it. That is one of the huge advantages of open source.

As soon as you add your module to the list, a few automatic tests will be ran (within 24 hours), resulting in a list of recommendations - but following these is entirely optional.

KristjanESPERANTO

@Sn4Pz That’s cool :-D

Don’t forget to add it to the module list: https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-party-modules