from piper.voice import PiperVoice as piper # Backbone of text to speech
import pyaudio

voice = piper.load("path/to/voice.onnx") # Load the model
    
chunks = voice.synthesize("text to be synthesized by the model") # Set up Piper to stream audio
first_chunk = next(chunks) # Get the first chunk to set up audio stream configuration

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open( # Open audio stream with correct settings
    format=p.get_format_from_width(first_chunk.sample_width),
    channels=first_chunk.sample_channels,
    rate=first_chunk.sample_rate,
    output=True,
)

stream.write(first_chunk.audio_int16_bytes) # Play the first chunk

for chunk in chunks: # Play subsequent chunks of audio
    stream.write(chunk.audio_int16_bytes)

# Cleanup
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()