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Need text to speech on non OS X platforms #6

Closed Xanthos-Code closed 8 years ago

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

gTTS looks great but google locks down the api from time-to-time so its not reliable.

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

https://pythonspot.com/speech-engines-with-python-tutorial/

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

Tried googleTTS - it is throttled so you need a key and you get a couple hundred requests a day. Tried voiceRss - robot like speech on their web site duo page. I got a 404 using the API

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

google_speech looks nice - just requires installing a bunch of stuff

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

Another option - have users sign up and get an api key for google - then they can use their own service plan.

PageArkanis commented 8 years ago

You could use https://github.com/marytts/marytts. Easy to install and easy to use crossplatform TTS.

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

Excellent suggestion! I will give it a go.

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You could use https://github.com/marytts/marytts. Easy to install and easy to use TTS.

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3vi1 commented 8 years ago

What do you think about pyFestival? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfestival/?

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

Interesting, though the manual has a broken link. We are moving to python 3 and QT 5 now - may have more options with that mix.

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3vi1 commented 8 years ago

I haven't really had time to look at the api, but I have played with festival in the past so it was the first thing that came to mind. I'm willing to help out from the Linux side of things - I'll try to familiarize myself with what you're already doing on OSX when I get the time.

3vi1 commented 8 years ago

I thought I found an easy solution in the pyttsx package, but as it turns out... not only is the speech quality much like a speak n' spell (like Festival if you don't install a higher quality voice), but it only works with Python2. Too bad, because it was literally 2 minutes to implement.

Let me continue looking at other options. I will try pyfestival if I don't find something better first.

3vi1 commented 8 years ago

nm.... with the high quality voice I have in festival, pyfestival sounds great! I'll make a develop-based patch and send it your way tomorrow. We can apply it to master if you want to push it out sooner. Since I can only use PyQt5 on Linux, I actually do all my dev on the develop branch.

3vi1 commented 8 years ago

Hey, am I crazy or is the voice not wired up to anything yet? I guess I was expecting there to be code somewhere that said things when on OSX, but maybe you just haven't added it until you had a cross-platform solution?

I've added a "Test Voice" button to the sound dialog to test it for now. I left the code such that it will prefer darwinSpeak if you're on OSX - but we can change that if you like. Will send you a pull request to look over when I get home tonight.

3vi1 commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/Xanthos-Eve/vintel/pull/110

Xanthos-Code commented 8 years ago

OSX has native support so its easy there - once we have a cross platform module we can refactor the code as needed. I looked at festival and thought it was overkill for what we are doing.

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110 https://github.com/Xanthos-Eve/vintel/pull/110

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