@ikidd@lemmy.world pointed me to piperTTS and i ended up with a python virtual enviroment, pip install piper-tts and de_DE-thorsten-high.onnx+json to be able to run echo "{{ $json.state}}" | piper -m ./de_DE-thorsten-high.onnx -f voice.wav && aplay voice.wav

and indeed that sounds much better than pico and espeak

thanks

my use case is that n8n sshs into a remote machine with low specs and a connected speaker to read out information sent from n8n so i can do stuff like: pico2wave -l de-DE -w /tmp/warn.wav "Es ist {{ $json.Hour }} Uhr." && aplay /tmp/warn.wav And as you might have guess by now german language would be appreciated. I’m not going to run any additional docker containers for voice generation or invoke remote services. also the speaker is as dirt cheap as the rest of the setup so any output from espeak was basically killing my eardrums.

while borgbackup is superior I’d like to hear your thoughts on that whole restic thing, e.g. backrest.

i am using https://freedns.afraid.org/ for over a decade now and problems occured less than 5 times over that period. all others i ever tried were worse over time.

yes. :-(

true. but man it was late so like at the worst time… just hate it so much when that happens.

borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage

I’ll borrow that mate!

apk del --purge $(apk info -R | awk ‘{print $1}’)

(1/243) Purging alpine-base (3.16.9-r0)

(2/243) Purging alpine-baselayout (3.2.0-r23)

(3/243) Purging alpine-baselayout-data (3.2.0-r23)

(4/243) Purging apk-tools (2.12.9-r3)

…

it took me that time to restore the system …obviously not being able to boot it anymore. i feel deeply ashamed.

it was late. i “thought” i might free up space inside that alpine lxc. i wasnt. i just like a moran wiped all the apps. then went to bed. i cant even recall what i thought would prevent this from destroying everything. at least it wasnt a closed OS…that would have cost me 51yrs.