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by marc 1203 days ago
Yes, you can configure the TTS voices (and languages).

If you send /voices you can pick from multiple voices.

Right now it only shows voices in English, but you can send the secret `/setvoice <voiceName>` with an Amazon Polly[0] neural voice and it will work as well.

The only downside right now is that I don't auto-identify languages, so if you set it to Dutch, but ask a question in English, you'll get a response in English with a very Dutch accent haha.

P.S. And yes @aero-glide2 is correct that you can toggle between Telegram's audio/video inputs by tapping the camera/microphone icon. – Right now MarcBot only supports audio inputs.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html

1 comments

I love this - thanks! Easiest interface into ChatGPT I've found.

/setvoice didn't see to work for me.

I was looking for a British voice and tried

/setvoice Brian

Am I doing something wrong?