From f22a5191a444152157bbf517ed4a9aff720ee31b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ayo <ayo@ayco.io>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 21:18:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: support lang_code; add instructions for Chinese usage

---
 README.md           | 13 +++++++++++--
 requirements-zh.txt |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 requirements-zh.txt

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a0cfdad..2fd24f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ sudo apt install vlc espeak-ng
 > [!Note]
 > Installing `vlc` via flatpak or snap will not work, as the code need access to `libvlc`.
 
-
 ## Setup
 
 Clone repo and go into the directory
@@ -61,9 +60,19 @@ Activate the environment and install the dependencies
 
 ```bash
 conda activate tts
-python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
+pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
+## Language-specific dependencies
+
+There are language-specific python dependencies. For example, if you will use Chinese voices (see [voices usage](#voices)), please install the requirements `requirements-zh.txt` ... supporting more languages is still a work in progress.
+
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements-zh.txt
+
+## then you can use zh-prefixed voices for Chinese texts:
+python tts.py -v zf_xiaoni "事实胜于雄辩"
+```
 
 ### Intel XPU environmental variables (Optional)
 
diff --git a/requirements-zh.txt b/requirements-zh.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb49973
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-zh.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# for zh
+pinyin_to_ipa
+cn2an
+jieba