piper-speak

LOW

maintainer kgn 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads voice model files (non-executable data) from Hugging Face, a plausible and commonly used host for ML models; while checksums are skipped, the worst case is data tampering, not code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads voice model files (non-executable data) from Hugging Face, a plausible and commonly used host for ML models; while checksums are skipped, the worst case is data tampering, not code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:13 "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/medium/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: David Keegan <me@davidkeegan.com>
    
      2pkgname=piper-speak
    
      3pkgver=2.0.3
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Simple text-to-speech wrapper for Piper TTS on Linux"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/kgn/piper-speak"
    
      8license=('MIT')
    
      9depends=('piper-tts' 'pipewire-pulse' 'wl-clipboard')
    
      10makedepends=('go')
    
      11optdepends=('libnotify: for speak-selection notifications')
    
      12source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/kgn/piper-speak/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
    
      13        "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/medium/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx"
    
      14        "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/main/en/en_US/lessac/medium/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json")
    
      15sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      16            'SKIP'
    
      17            'SKIP')
    
      18
    
      19build() {
    
      20    cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      21    go build -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w" -o piper-speak ./cmd/piper-speak/
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25    cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      26
    
      27    install -Dm755 piper-speak "$pkgdir/usr/bin/piper-speak"
    
      28    install -Dm755 scripts/speak-selection "$pkgdir/usr/bin/speak-selection"
    
      29    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      30    install -Dm644 README.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/README.md"
    
      31
    
      32    # Install default voice model
    
      33    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx" "$pkgdir/usr/share/piper-speak/voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx"
    
      34    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json" "$pkgdir/usr/share/piper-speak/voices/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json"
    
      35}
    
      36

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
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2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
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2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2