Based on https://github.com/gmorenz/pico-tts. Gradually hope to rewrite out copyrighted code, or ensure is properly licensed (upstream no license).
Makefile based on https://github.com/DougGore/picopi (implicit license) - probably original enough now.
This repository uses submodules - to checkout completely, git submodule init, git submodule update. So, should upstream delete their repo we're out of luck - but this is otherwise a fairly simple and clean method of tracking dependencies.
To use the binary, simply pass text in over stdin and receive uncompressed PCM over stdout. Pipe to aplay -q -f S16_LE -r 16 to listen to it, or redirect to a file, whichever.
- Output file flag w/
-for stdout, so I don't throw garbage at the terminal without a warning