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Community-maintained integration. This service is built and maintained by simpli-smart. Pipecat does not test or officially support it. Please report issues and request changes on the source repository. Learn more about community integrations.

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Overview

SimplismartHttpTTSService generates speech from text using the Simplismart streaming /tts API. Audio is returned as raw PCM (s16le, mono) at 24 kHz, suitable for real-time voice pipelines.

Source Repository

Source code, examples, and issues for the Simplismart integration

Simplismart

Learn more about Simplismart and its AI services

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Installation

This is a community-maintained package distributed separately from pipecat-ai.

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Prerequisites

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Simplismart Account Setup

Before using the Simplismart text-to-speech service, you need a Simplismart account and API key. See Simplismart to get started.

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Required Environment Variables

  • SIMPLISMART_API_KEY: Bearer token used to authenticate TTS requests. Can be passed directly via the api_key constructor argument instead.
  • SIMPLISMART_TTS_URL: TTS endpoint URL. Defaults to https://api.simplismart.live/tts if not set.

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Configuration

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str
default:"None"
Simplismart bearer token. Falls back to the SIMPLISMART_API_KEY environment variable if not provided.
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str
default:"None"
TTS endpoint URL (e.g. https://api.simplismart.live/tts). Falls back to the SIMPLISMART_TTS_URL environment variable, then to https://api.simplismart.live/tts.
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aiohttp.ClientSession
default:"None"
Optional shared HTTP client session. If not provided, the service creates and manages its own session.
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int
default:"None"
Output sample rate. Should match SimplismartHttpTTSService.SAMPLE_RATE (24000) for correct playback.
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SimplismartHttpTTSService.Settings
default:"None"
Voice, model, and generation settings. See Settings below.

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Settings

Runtime-configurable settings passed via the settings constructor argument using SimplismartHttpTTSService.Settings(...).
Available parameters and defaults are defined by the integration. See the source repository for the authoritative, up-to-date list.

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Usage

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Compatibility

Tested with Pipecat v1.1.0 (pipecat-ai>=0.0.86). Check the source repository for the latest tested version and changelog.