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 install with 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