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feat(eris): supertonic text-to-speech, ten swedish voices at 44 kHz - #1782

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piper has three Swedish voices and all of them are medium - there is no high tier for the language, so it has no headroom left. Supertonic 3 is four small ONNX graphs rather than an autoregressive model, which is what keeps it fast without a GPU.

Measured on the same sentence, synthesis seconds per second of audio:

RTF rate Swedish voices GPU
piper 0.276-0.362 22.05 kHz 3 no
Supertonic 3 0.175-0.223 44.1 kHz 10 no
Chatterbox 1.73-1.87 24 kHz cloned yes

Supertonic is faster than what it replaces, at double the sample rate - though piper was measured on icarus and Supertonic on eris, so that comparison is not like-for-like. Chatterbox was the other candidate and is out: RTF 1.8 on CPU, and its GPU path is blocked by nixpkgs' onnxruntime advertising MIGraphX while omitting the library.

Three pieces, same shape as the ASR work:

  • packages/supertonic - the SDK from PyPI, pure Python, all four dependencies already in nixpkgs
  • packages/wyoming-supertonic - Supertonic has no server of its own, so Home Assistant cannot reach it otherwise. Converts the SDK's float32 output to the interleaved 16-bit PCM wyoming expects, chunks it so playback can start before a long sentence finishes, and loads the model once at startup rather than per request.
  • profiles/supertonic-tts.nix - one unit, weights persisted under /keep, with the RequiresMountsFor fix from fix(qwen-asr): wait for the state mount, and give llama-server a HOME #1781 applied from the start.

eris enables it on F5.

Verified over the protocol before pushing: all ten voices advertised through Describe, and synthesis at RTF 0.187-0.228 at 44.1 kHz.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XfYTVcQVjCevVeoJofu8FF

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