smart-tts 1.9.0

Smart TTS: Fish Audio speech, ElevenLabs music/ambient, ffmpeg mixing

smart-tts

High-level Python library for expressive speech production: Fish Audio TTS, ElevenLabs music and ambient beds, and ffmpeg layer mixing.

Pass raw text (optionally with SSML <break> tags) — the library converts pauses to Fish Audio paralanguage, synthesizes speech in one continuous pass, and can mix music and ambient underneath.

Features

• SmartTTS facade — one pipeline from text to audio
• Fish Audio speech — single-pass synthesis via s2.1-pro (fallback to s2.1-pro-free on 402)
• SSML breaks → Fish S2 tags — <break time="1.2s"/> becomes [long pause]
• ElevenLabs beds — optional music (music.compose) and ambient (text_to_sound_effects)
• ffmpeg mixing — speech + music + ambient with volume weights
• Sync & async API — SmartTTS / AsyncSmartTTS with the same signatures
• Voice registry — local diskcache for registered Fish reference_id voices

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• ffmpeg and ffprobe in PATH (only when mixing layers)

Installation

pip install smart-tts

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/vpuhoff/smart-tts.git
cd smart-tts
uv sync --dev

Quick start

1. Copy .env.example to .env and set your API keys:

cp .env.example .env

2. Run synthesis:

from pathlib import Path

from smart_tts import SmartTTS, SynthesisTask, VoiceSettings

tts = SmartTTS.from_env()
tts.sync_voices()

result = tts.synthesize_to_file(
    SynthesisTask(
        text='Центр, <break time="1.2s" /> на связи резидентура.',
        language="ru",
        style="serious",
        emotion="serious",
        voice_id="67d37d81cb7340b391e9461d6671de03",
        voice_settings=VoiceSettings(temperature=0.7, speed=1.0),
    ),
    Path("output.mp3"),
)

print(result.enhanced_text)

See example.py for a full demo: detective radio report with speech variants, custom music, and remix.

uv run python example.py
uv run python example.py --variants 2
uv run python example.py --remix-only --music back.mp3

Synthesis with music and ambient

Pass bed prompts or file paths in SynthesisTask — synthesize() generates speech, then mixes layers automatically:

result = tts.synthesize(
    SynthesisTask(
        text="...",
        voice_id="your-fish-reference-id",
        music_prompt="Melancholic noir piano, instrumental, no vocals",
        ambient_prompt="Subtle radio hum, tape hiss, seamless loop",
        music_volume=0.32,
        ambient_volume=0.18,
        bed_weight=0.68,
    )
)

Or provide pre-recorded files:

SynthesisTask(
    text="...",
    music_path="back.mp3",
    ambient_path="ambient.wav",
)

ELEVENLABS_API_KEY is required for API-generated beds. Custom files work without it.

Task parameters

Core fields

Field	Description
text	Source script; SSML <break time="Xs"/> converted to Fish pauses when enhance_text=True
voice_id	Fish Audio reference_id
language	Language hint (metadata / emotion mapping)
style, emotion, use_case	Context hints; emotion adds Fish paralanguage prefix
enhance_text	True — break conversion + emotion prefix; False — raw text
voice_settings	temperature, speed, top_p, repetition_penalty for Fish API
model	Fish model (see table below)

Mixing fields

Field	Default	Description
music_prompt	—	ElevenLabs Music API prompt
ambient_prompt	—	ElevenLabs Sound Effects API prompt
music_path	—	Pre-recorded music file
ambient_path	—	Pre-recorded ambient file
music_volume	0.32	Music level in mix
ambient_volume	0.18	Ambient level in mix
speech_volume	1.0	Speech gain in mix (1.0 = unchanged)
bed_weight	0.68	Background bed weight vs speech

SSML breaks

# Input
'Срочное донесение. <break time="1.2s" /> Обнаружена цель.'

# After enhance_text (Fish S2 [bracket] tags)
'Срочное донесение. [long pause] Обнаружена цель.'

Pause	Fish markup
≥ 1.2 s	[long pause]
≥ 0.75 s	[pause]
≥ 0.4 s	...

Emotion tags

Fish Audio S2/S2.1 interprets [bracket] tags as delivery hints (not spoken text). Parenthesis prose like (soft tone) is not supported and may be read aloud.

emotion	Tag added
warm	[warm]
serious	[serious]
excited	[excited]
sad	[sad]
whisper	[whisper]
calm	[calm]

Configuration

Required

Variable	Description
FISH_API_KEY	Fish Audio API key

Optional

Variable	Default	Description
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY	—	For music/ambient generation
FISH_DEFAULT_MODEL	s2.1-pro	Fish model (s2.1-pro-free if no paid credits)
FISH_DEFAULT_VOICE_ID	Kanevsky ref id	Fallback reference_id
FISH_API_URL	https://api.fish.audio/v1/tts	Fish TTS endpoint
ELEVENLABS_CACHE_DIR	~/.cache/smart-tts	Voice registry cache
ELEVENLABS_DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT	mp3_44100_128	Output format

Programmatic configuration:

from smart_tts import SmartTTS, SmartTTSConfig, TTSModel

config = SmartTTSConfig(
    fish_api_key="...",
    elevenlabs_api_key="...",  # optional
    default_model=TTSModel.ELEVEN_V3,
    default_voice_id="67d37d81cb7340b391e9461d6671de03",
)
tts = SmartTTS(config)

Usage

Synthesis pipeline

from smart_tts import SmartTTS, SynthesisTask, TTSModel, VoiceSettings

with SmartTTS.from_env() as tts:
    tts.sync_voices()
    result = tts.synthesize(
        SynthesisTask(
            text="Срочное донесение.",
            voice_id="67d37d81cb7340b391e9461d6671de03",
            model=TTSModel.ELEVEN_V3,
            emotion="serious",
            voice_settings=VoiceSettings(temperature=0.7),
        )
    )
    audio_bytes = result.audio
    prepared_text = result.enhanced_text

Generation templates

Use GenerationTemplate to bundle speech, background, and mix settings. Pass only the script text at synthesis time:

from pathlib import Path

from smart_tts import INVESTIGATION, GenerationTemplate, SmartTTS, synthesize_with_template

# Built-in preset
with SmartTTS.from_env() as tts:
    speech = tts.synthesize_text(
        'Срочное донесение. <break time="1.2s" /> Обнаружена цель.',
        INVESTIGATION,
        mix=False,  # speech only
    )
    tts.synthesize_text_to_file(
        "Конец связи.",
        INVESTIGATION,
        Path("output/speech.mp3"),
        mix=False,
    )
    tts.remix_file(
        Path("output/speech.mp3"),
        Path("output/final.mp3"),
        INVESTIGATION,
    )

# Custom template or overrides
template = INVESTIGATION.with_overrides(
    speech_volume=1.2,
    music_path="back.mp3",
    ambient_path=None,
)
result = synthesize_with_template("Привет!", template, mix=True)

# Load/save JSON recipes (see templates/investigation.json)
template = GenerationTemplate.from_json_file("templates/investigation.json")

Method	Description
template.to_task(text, mix=True, **overrides)	Build SynthesisTask
template.with_overrides(**kwargs)	Copy with changed fields
GenerationTemplate.from_dict() / from_json_file()	Deserialize
template.save_json(path)	Serialize to JSON
get_template("investigation")	Built-in preset lookup
tts.synthesize_text(text, template)	Synthesize with template
tts.remix_file(speech, output, template)	Mix speech + beds

Preview prepared text without TTS

prepared = tts.enhance_text_only(
    SynthesisTask(
        text='Центр, <break time="1.2s" /> на связи.',
        emotion="warm",
    )
)

One-liner

from smart_tts import synthesize

result = synthesize(
    "Привет, мир!",
    language="ru",
    style="neutral",
)

Async API

import asyncio
from pathlib import Path

from smart_tts import AsyncSmartTTS, SynthesisTask, asynthesize

async def main() -> None:
    async with AsyncSmartTTS.from_env() as tts:
        result = await tts.synthesize_to_file(
            SynthesisTask(text="Привет!", language="ru"),
            Path("output.mp3"),
        )
        print(result.enhanced_text)

asyncio.run(main())

Voice registry

voices = tts.list_voices()
voice = tts.get_voice("reference-id")
tts.sync_voices(force=True)  # refresh default voice in cache

Fish voices are referenced by reference_id from the Fish Audio console. Register custom voices via VoiceRegistry.register_voice() or set FISH_DEFAULT_VOICE_ID.

Models (TTSModel)

Legacy enum names map to Fish Audio models:

Enum	Fish model	Notes
TTSModel.ELEVEN_V3	s2.1-pro	Default; auto-fallback to s2.1-pro-free on 402
TTSModel.ELEVEN_MULTILINGUAL_V2	s2-pro
TTSModel.ELEVEN_FLASH_V2_5	s1

Package layout

smart_tts/
├── tts.py, async_tts.py     # SmartTTS facade
├── templates.py             # GenerationTemplate presets
├── config.py, models.py
├── client/
│   ├── fish.py              # Fish Audio TTS
│   └── elevenlabs.py        # Music + ambient beds
├── script/breaks.py         # SSML → Fish paralanguage
├── audio/mixer.py           # ffmpeg mix_tracks
├── text.py                  # prepare_text()
└── voices/registry.py       # diskcache voice registry

Development

uv sync --dev
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Links

• GitHub repository
• PyPI package
• Design specification (Russian)