Mandarin Clipboard Speaker
- Automatically speak Chinese characters as Mandarin when they are copied to the system clipboard on Linux.
- Runs offline and works in any application with the goal to make 汉字 easier to read for non-native speakers.
Running
- Clone the repo then run
go run main.go - If the local model is not present, it will be installed automatically
- For automatic start on boot via systemd, run
make installwith the included makefile
Technical Details
This program runs and installs the Piper text-to-speech model for Mandarin Chinese. It currently installs the model and binary to the same location as QuickPiperAudiobook but in the future once Piper is included within speech dispatcher, I can use that instead.
Quickstart Video
