Flatsonar

Pied

by Mike Sheldon

Pied makes it simple to install and manage text-to-speech voices

Dangerous permissions Unverified publisher GPL-3.0+ v0.3.1
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Screenshot 1 of Pied

About

Pied installs and configures the Piper neural text-to-speech engine to work with Speech Dispatcher. It can then be used to download and manage different voices.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • network
    --share=network

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • com.mikeasoft.pied claims the domain mikeasoft.com; only its owner can prove that
    publisher:namespace
  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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