Text-to-speech (TTS) in Home Assistant
tts
part of Home Assistant since 0.35
Text-to-speech (TTS) is an official Home Assistant integration for Media source and Text-to-speech.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Entity type
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 98,348 (14.4 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media source, Text-to-speech
- Provides
- Notifications
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
- Python packages
mutagen==1.48.1
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Notifications & Announcements
- Automation Doorbell - Notify Google and send camera snapshot to app
- Automation TTS on door opening with persons at home
- Script Announce
- Automation Door open tts.cloud_say and Piper announcer (Uses Piper Addon OR Nabu-Casa Cloud) - 2024-06-08
- Automation Joke generator
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Text-to-speech (TTS) in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.6.2.
Open
- open Reported problem #158150
- open Reported problem #175679
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.6.2 Bug fix #173290
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration