For installation-related issues, please refer to the Piper TTS repository. It's important to note that if you're installing piper-tts via pip, only Python 3.10 is currently supported. Mac users may encounter additional challenges when using the downloaded binary. For more information on Mac-specific issues, please check this issue and this pull request.

Ref:

• M1 Mac piper-phonemize issues + arm64 binary fails to run rhasspy/piper#395
• Cannot install piper-tts==1.1.0 and piper-tts==1.2.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies. rhasspy/piper#509
• Mislabeling and Architecture Compatibility Issue in piper_macos_aarch64.tar.gz Package on M2 Mac rhasspy/piper#523
• Fixed build issues on MacOS caused by unset rpath rhasspy/piper#412