From f31b21559c55e991fd75c3b78830b07e4b2e3d5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: legop3 <46182676+legop3@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 00:23:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add laptop-only Chrome TTS daemon

---
 pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon-laptop.py | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 202 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon-laptop.py

diff --git a/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon-laptop.py b/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon-laptop.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..46fad6f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon-laptop.py
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import ctypes
+import ctypes.util
+import json
+import os
+import struct
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+
+ASSET_ROOT = "/opt/roverd/googletts"
+LIB_PATH = os.path.join(ASSET_ROOT, "libchrometts.so")
+VOICE_DIR = os.path.join(ASSET_ROOT, "en-us-x-multi-r30")
+PIPELINE = "pipeline.pb"
+PLAYBACK_DEVICE = "tts"
+SAMPLE_RATE = "24000"
+MAX_TEXT_CHARS = 512
+
+VOICES = {
+    "sfg": "female",
+    "iob": "female",
+    "iog": "female",
+    "iol": "male",
+    "iom": "male",
+    "tpc": "female",
+    "tpd": "male",
+    "tpf": "female",
+}
+DEFAULT_VOICE = "tpf"
+DEFAULT_PITCH = 1.0
+DEFAULT_SPEED = 1.0
+MIN_PITCH = 0.5
+MAX_PITCH = 2.0
+MIN_SPEED = 0.5
+MAX_SPEED = 2.0
+
+_runtime_handles = []
+
+
+def load_shared_library(path):
+    mode = ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL | getattr(os, "RTLD_NOW", 0)
+    return ctypes.CDLL(path, mode=mode)
+
+
+def preload_runtime_libraries():
+    # Laptop-only workaround: some ChromeOS libchrometts builds reference
+    # compiler helper symbols such as __udivmodti4 without declaring the runtime
+    # library as an ELF dependency. Loading common compiler runtimes globally
+    # first makes those symbols visible before ctypes loads libchrometts.so.
+    for name in ("gcc_s", "atomic", "stdc++", "c++", "c++abi"):
+        lib = ctypes.util.find_library(name)
+        if not lib:
+            continue
+        try:
+            _runtime_handles.append(load_shared_library(lib))
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
+
+preload_runtime_libraries()
+
+
+def varint(value):
+    out = bytearray()
+    while value >= 0x80:
+        out.append((value & 0x7F) | 0x80)
+        value >>= 7
+    out.append(value)
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def field_bytes(number, payload):
+    return varint((number << 3) | 2) + varint(len(payload)) + payload
+
+
+def field_float(number, value):
+    return varint((number << 3) | 5) + struct.pack("<f", float(value))
+
+
+def build_utterance(text, pitch=1.0, speed=1.0):
+    params = field_float(2, pitch) + field_float(3, speed)
+    msg_b = field_bytes(1, text.encode("utf-8")) + field_bytes(20, params)
+    msg_a = field_bytes(1, msg_b)
+    return field_bytes(1, msg_a)
+
+
+def build_speaker(name, gender):
+    return field_bytes(1, name.encode("utf-8")) + field_bytes(2, gender.encode("utf-8"))
+
+
+class ChromeTTS:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.lib = load_shared_library(LIB_PATH)
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsInit.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsInit.restype = ctypes.c_bool
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsInitBuffered.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int]
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsInitBuffered.restype = ctypes.c_bool
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsGetFramesInAudioBuffer.argtypes = []
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsGetFramesInAudioBuffer.restype = ctypes.c_size_t
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsReadBuffered.argtypes = [
+            ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),
+            ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_size_t),
+        ]
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsReadBuffered.restype = ctypes.c_int
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsShutdown.argtypes = []
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsShutdown.restype = None
+
+        voice_dir = os.path.abspath(VOICE_DIR) + os.sep
+        pipeline = os.path.join(voice_dir, PIPELINE)
+        if not self.lib.GoogleTtsInit(pipeline.encode("utf-8"), voice_dir.encode("utf-8")):
+            raise RuntimeError("GoogleTtsInit failed")
+        self.frames = int(self.lib.GoogleTtsGetFramesInAudioBuffer())
+        if self.frames <= 0:
+            raise RuntimeError("invalid Google TTS audio buffer size")
+        self.buffer = (ctypes.c_float * self.frames)()
+
+    def speak_to_aplay(self, text, voice, pitch=DEFAULT_PITCH, speed=DEFAULT_SPEED):
+        voice = voice if voice in VOICES else DEFAULT_VOICE
+        pitch = clamp_float(pitch, MIN_PITCH, MAX_PITCH, DEFAULT_PITCH)
+        speed = clamp_float(speed, MIN_SPEED, MAX_SPEED, DEFAULT_SPEED)
+        text = text.strip()
+        if not text:
+            raise ValueError("text required")
+        text = text[:MAX_TEXT_CHARS]
+        utterance = build_utterance(text, pitch=pitch, speed=speed)
+        speaker = build_speaker(voice, VOICES[voice])
+        if not self.lib.GoogleTtsInitBuffered(utterance, speaker, len(utterance), len(speaker)):
+            raise RuntimeError("GoogleTtsInitBuffered failed")
+
+        player = subprocess.Popen(
+            ["aplay", "-q", "-D", PLAYBACK_DEVICE, "-r", SAMPLE_RATE, "-f", "FLOAT_LE", "-c", "1"],
+            stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
+        )
+        try:
+            frames_written = ctypes.c_size_t(0)
+            while self.lib.GoogleTtsReadBuffered(self.buffer, ctypes.byref(frames_written)) > 0:
+                frames = int(frames_written.value)
+                if frames > 0:
+                    player.stdin.write(ctypes.string_at(self.buffer, frames * ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_float)))
+            player.stdin.close()
+            rc = player.wait()
+            if rc != 0:
+                raise RuntimeError(f"aplay exited with {rc}")
+        finally:
+            if player.poll() is None:
+                player.kill()
+                player.wait()
+
+    def shutdown(self):
+        self.lib.GoogleTtsShutdown()
+
+
+def respond(payload):
+    sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":")) + "\n")
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+def clamp_float(value, minimum, maximum, fallback):
+    try:
+        value = float(value)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return fallback
+    if value <= 0:
+        return fallback
+    if value < minimum:
+        return minimum
+    if value > maximum:
+        return maximum
+    return value
+
+
+def main():
+    try:
+        tts = ChromeTTS()
+    except Exception as exc:
+        respond({"ok": False, "error": str(exc)})
+        return 1
+
+    respond({"ok": True, "ready": True})
+    try:
+        for line in sys.stdin:
+            line = line.strip()
+            if not line:
+                continue
+            try:
+                request = json.loads(line)
+                tts.speak_to_aplay(
+                    str(request.get("text") or ""),
+                    str(request.get("voice") or DEFAULT_VOICE),
+                    request.get("pitch", DEFAULT_PITCH),
+                    request.get("speed", DEFAULT_SPEED),
+                )
+                respond({"ok": True})
+            except Exception as exc:
+                respond({"ok": False, "error": str(exc)})
+    finally:
+        tts.shutdown()
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())