piper-tts: drop in favor of python3-kokoro-onnx

Kokoro-82M replaced piper as the TTS engine: piper's voices were
rejected by ear, Kokoro was clearly better in both Italian and English.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

6 files changed, 0 insertions, 131 deletions

diff --git a/.extras/nvchecker.toml b/.extras/nvchecker.toml
index a3e553d..9d132d1 100644
--- a/.extras/nvchecker.toml
+++ b/.extras/nvchecker.toml
@@ -162,12 +162,6 @@ pypi = "kokoro-onnx"
 source = "pypi"
 pypi = "onnxruntime"
 
-[piper-tts]
-source = "github"
-github = "OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl"
-use_latest_release = true
-prefix = "v"
-
 [edge-tts]
 source = "pypi"
 pypi = "edge-tts"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8228e65..c392462 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ Each package lives in its own top-level subfolder:
 | hyprsunset-qt | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 0.1.1 | 0.1.1 |
 | python3-pathvalidate | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 |
 | python3-onnxruntime | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 1.30.0 | 1.30.0 |
-| piper-tts | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 1.8.0 | 1.8.0 |
 | edge-tts | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 7.2.8 | 7.2.8 |
 | qtmaildir | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 0.29.0 | 0.29.0 |
 | typora-bin | ✅ | not tested | ❌ | 1.14.9 | 1.14.10 |
diff --git a/piper-tts/README b/piper-tts/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a2ab1a..0000000
--- a/piper-tts/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-piper-tts is a fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds
-espeak-ng for phonemization. It runs entirely on-device with no network
-access. Voices are ONNX models.
-
-This package installs the prebuilt manylinux x86_64 wheel from upstream
-releases. The console script is renamed from 'piper' to 'piper-tts' to
-avoid clashing with the SBo 'piper' (libratbag mouse tool).
-
-Runtime dependencies (packaged separately):
-  python3-onnxruntime
-  python3-pathvalidate
-
-Homepage: https://github.com/OHF-voice/piper1-gpl
diff --git a/piper-tts/piper-tts.SlackBuild b/piper-tts/piper-tts.SlackBuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 91dd556..0000000
--- a/piper-tts/piper-tts.SlackBuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Slackware build script for piper-tts
-
-# Copyright 2026 danix <danix@danix.xyz>
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
-# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-#
-# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
-#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-#
-#  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
-#  WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
-#  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO
-#  EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-#  SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
-#  PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
-#  OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
-#  WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
-#  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
-#  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
-cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
-
-PRGNAM=piper-tts
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.0}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
-TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
-PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
-
-SRCNAM=piper_tts
-
-ARCH=${ARCH:-x86_64}
-
-# Only x86_64 is supported (pre-built manylinux wheel)
-if [ "$ARCH" != "x86_64" ]; then
-  echo "ERROR: $PRGNAM is only available for x86_64."
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
-  echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
-PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
-OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
-
-set -e
-
-rm -rf $PKG
-mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
-
-python3 -m installer --destdir "$PKG" \
-  "$CWD/$SRCNAM-$VERSION-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl"
-
-# Rename the console script to avoid clashing with SBo's libratbag 'piper'
-mv $PKG/usr/bin/piper $PKG/usr/bin/piper-tts
-
-# The wheel's data/COPYING installs to the prefix root; the license is
-# already copied to /usr/doc from dist-info/licenses, so drop the stray copy.
-rm -f $PKG/usr/COPYING
-
-find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-# Copy license files from the wheel's dist-info
-for lic in \
-  $PKG/usr/lib64/python3*/site-packages/$SRCNAM-$VERSION.dist-info/licenses/* ; do
-  [ -e "$lic" ] && cp -a "$lic" $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-done
-cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
-
-mkdir -p $PKG/install
-cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
-
-cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE
diff --git a/piper-tts/piper-tts.info b/piper-tts/piper-tts.info
deleted file mode 100644
index a901676..0000000
--- a/piper-tts/piper-tts.info
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-PRGNAM="piper-tts"
-VERSION="1.8.0"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/OHF-voice/piper1-gpl"
-DOWNLOAD="UNSUPPORTED"
-MD5SUM=""
-DOWNLOAD_x86_64="https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/releases/download/v1.8.0/piper_tts-1.8.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl"
-MD5SUM_x86_64="700ba6d2a2e75b3ece0bbdedcf4e635c"
-REQUIRES="python3-onnxruntime python3-pathvalidate"
-MAINTAINER="danix"
-EMAIL="danix@danix.xyz"
diff --git a/piper-tts/slack-desc b/piper-tts/slack-desc
deleted file mode 100644
index e07359e..0000000
--- a/piper-tts/slack-desc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
-# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
-# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
-# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
-# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
-# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
-
-         |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-piper-tts: piper-tts (fast local neural text-to-speech engine)
-piper-tts:
-piper-tts: A fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds
-piper-tts: espeak-ng for phonemization. Runs entirely on-device with no
-piper-tts: network access. Voices are ONNX models.
-piper-tts:
-piper-tts: The console script is installed as 'piper-tts' to avoid clashing
-piper-tts: with the SBo 'piper' (libratbag mouse tool).
-piper-tts:
-piper-tts: Homepage: https://github.com/OHF-voice/piper1-gpl
-piper-tts: