From 3999634b06ef9eb20967ba3be35a30691e06e28e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Stoltz <andrew@flowercore.io>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:18:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Seed ttsreader piper voices before startup

---
 apps/fc-ttsreader/fc-ttsreader.yaml | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/fc-ttsreader/fc-ttsreader.yaml b/apps/fc-ttsreader/fc-ttsreader.yaml
index 31bfb02..11ddeba 100644
--- a/apps/fc-ttsreader/fc-ttsreader.yaml
+++ b/apps/fc-ttsreader/fc-ttsreader.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,50 @@ spec:
         app.kubernetes.io/name: ttsreader-piper
         app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
     spec:
+      initContainers:
+        - name: seed-voices
+          image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper:latest
+          command:
+            - python3
+            - -c
+          args:
+            - |
+              import shutil
+              import ssl
+              from pathlib import Path
+              from urllib.request import urlopen
+
+              ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
+
+              files = {
+                  "en_US-lessac-high.onnx": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/high/en_US-lessac-high.onnx",
+                  "en_US-lessac-high.onnx.json": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/high/en_US-lessac-high.onnx.json",
+                  "en_US-lessac-medium.onnx": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/medium/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx",
+                  "en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/medium/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json",
+                  "en_US-amy-medium.onnx": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/amy/medium/en_US-amy-medium.onnx",
+                  "en_US-amy-medium.onnx.json": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/amy/medium/en_US-amy-medium.onnx.json",
+                  "en_US-john-medium.onnx": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/john/medium/en_US-john-medium.onnx",
+                  "en_US-john-medium.onnx.json": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/john/medium/en_US-john-medium.onnx.json",
+                  "en_GB-cori-high.onnx": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_GB/cori/high/en_GB-cori-high.onnx",
+                  "en_GB-cori-high.onnx.json": "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_GB/cori/high/en_GB-cori-high.onnx.json",
+              }
+
+              target = Path("/data")
+              target.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+              for name, url in files.items():
+                  path = target / name
+                  if path.exists() and path.stat().st_size > 0:
+                      print(f"cached {name}", flush=True)
+                      continue
+
+                  print(f"downloading {name}", flush=True)
+                  with urlopen(url, timeout=180) as response, open(path, "wb") as download_file:
+                      shutil.copyfileobj(response, download_file)
+                  print(f"ready {name}", flush=True)
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: data
+              mountPath: /data
       containers:
         - name: piper
           image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper:latest
@@ -45,7 +89,7 @@ spec:
               value: "0"
           args:
             - "--voice"
-            - "en_US-lessac-medium"
+            - "en_US-lessac-high"
             - "--data-dir"
             - "/data"
             - "--download-dir"
@@ -98,7 +142,7 @@ spec:
         fsGroupChangePolicy: OnRootMismatch
       containers:
         - name: web
-          image: localhost/fc-ttsreader-web:v20260423155255
+          image: localhost/fc-ttsreader-web:v20260423171304
           imagePullPolicy: Never
           ports:
             - containerPort: 5217