Some progress this weekend - the message bus is still not working but the websockets code is using the latest (v15) - I’ll keep chugging.
Mimic3 has been retired and piper seems to be working and performs fairly well - that was refreshingly easy comparatively:
[2025-04-14 06:15:03.598] [piper] [info] Loaded voice in 0.418249383 second(s)
[2025-04-14 06:15:03.598] [piper] [info] Initialized piper
[2025-04-14 06:15:03.598] [piper] [info] Output directory: /home/pi/minimy/framework/services/tts/local/piper/.
/home/pi/minimy/framework/services/tts/local/piper/./1744625703598838683.wav
[2025-04-14 06:15:04.065] [piper] [info] Real-time factor: 0.1480162489283225 (infer=0.462267164 sec, audio=3.1230839002267574 sec)
[2025-04-14 06:15:04.065] [piper] [info] Terminated piper
real 0m0.935s
This was on a Raspberry Pi 5.
P.S. I cannot log on to the OVOS forum - “Use Google” forces me to create a new user, and “Forgot password” allows me to reset it, but the new one doesn’t work 