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kelciour / awesometts-anki-addon

AwesomeTTS text-to-speech add-on for Anki
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There have AwesomeTTS with AWS Polly support version on github. could you merge it to yours? thank you #2

Closed HeroBlackInk closed 4 years ago

HeroBlackInk commented 5 years ago

here is link.

https://github.com/artem7902/awesometts-anki-addon

kelciour commented 5 years ago

I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in spending my time on supporting it. Though, I can make something similar by commission in a week or two, that would be maybe a bit easier to install and won't require any extra dependencies. I may make something on my own but it won't happen any time soon as I have a couple of unfinished projects and a lot of Anki decks that I'd like to do first.

The above mentioned repository worked fine for me the last time I provided paid help to install it. Though, one file is still needed to be updated to make it work. I looked up my messages from that time and here's instructions that might make it a bit easier to install:

  1. Download the add-on https://github.com/artem7902/awesometts-anki-addon by using green Clone or download button and selecting Download ZIP.

  2. Open the add-ons folder via Tools - Add-ons - Open Add-ons Folder and unpack it there, i.e. after unpacking it'll be something like C:\Users\Nickolay\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\awesometts-anki-addon-master

  3. Use Download ZIP button to download from https://gist.github.com/kelciour/ccf422a69f92f190b6402d730b7285a0 and export __init__.py into the awesometts-anki-addon-master folder, i.e. replace __init__.py in awesometts-anki-addon-master with __init__py from the archive.

  4. Create Amazon AWS account. It will require a credit card - https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/?nc1=h_ls

  5. After registration, get authentication credentials via IAM Console - https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/quickstart.html#configuration

    In IAM Console click on Users to create a new user, then Add user, type user name and check "Programmatic access", then click on Next:Permissions, then Attach Existing policies directly, in search box print Polly and check AmazonPollyFullAccess, AmazonPollyReadOnly, then Next:Review, Create use and copy Access key and Secret Key or leave the page opened.

  6. Close Anki, download the attached archive aws.zip and unpack it into your home folder (C:\Users\Nickolay), i.e. C:\Users\Nickolay\.aws, and add your keys (aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key) into .aws\credentials file. It can be opened in any text editor.

That's it. Maybe some steps can be simplified a bit.

HeroBlackInk commented 5 years ago

you are so kind.

kelciour commented 5 years ago

Ah, no problem. I'll leave it open just in case if someone decided to ask the same question or I may happen to implement it myself.

luc-vocab commented 4 years ago

This looks like something we should merge. Just curious, what is the advantage of AWS polly ? we've merged Google Cloud TTS. I'm working on Azure TTS which has some neural voices as well. It would make sense to merge Amazon Polly in case it provides some unique voice combination which is not found elsewhere.

Separately, I found a cool way to test the various services automatically: download a voice file, then run it through a speech recognition service ( I use Azure cognitive services). I have a change which i'll integrate soon. This should allow us to detect when services start breaking.

kelciour commented 4 years ago

I don't know much about AWS Polly and didn't compare their voices or free tier usage with Google, but a half an year ago AWS Polly had a few languages that Google didn't have available yet.