espeak-ruby

espeak-ruby is a small Ruby API for utilizing espeak and lame to create Text-To-Speech mp3 files. It can also just speak (without saving). See the live demo.

Install

Add espeak-ruby to Gemfile

“by gem “espeak-ruby”, require: “espeak”

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Examples

First you need to include ESpeak module to access espeak API

“by include ESpeak

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Then use it like this:

“by

Speaks “YO!”

speech = Speech.new(“YO!”) speech.speak # invokes espeak

Creates hello-de.mp3 file

speech = Speech.new(“Hallo Welt”, voice: “de”) speech.save(“hello-de.mp3”) # invokes espeak + lame

Lists voices

Voice.all.map { |v| v.language } # [af, bs, ca, cs, cy, da, de, el, en, en-sc, en-uk, en-uk-north, en-uk-rp, en-uk-wmids, en-us, en-wi, eo, es, es-la, fi, fr, fr-be, grc, hi, hr, hu, hy, hy, id, is, it, jbo, ka, kn, ku, la, lv, mk, ml, nci, nl, no, pap, pl, pt, pt-pt, ro, ru, sk, sq, sr, sv, sw, ta, tr, vi, zh, zh-yue]

Find particular voice

Voice.find_by_language(‘en’) #ESpeak::Voice:0x007fe1d3806be8 @language="en", @name="default", @gender="M", @file="default"

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Features

Currently only subset of espeak features is supported.

“by: voice => ‘en’ # use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices; pitch => 50 # pitch adjustment, 0 to 99; speed => 170 # speed in words per minute, 80 to 370; capital => 170 # increase emphasis (pitch) of capitalized words, 1 to 40 (for natural sound, can go higher)
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These are default values, and they can be easily overridden:

“by Speech.new(“Zdravo svete”, voice: “sr”, pitch: 90, speed: 200).speak

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Requirements

espeak-http - Micro web app for Text-To-Speech conversion via HTTP powered by Ruby, Sinatra, lame, espeak and espeak-ruby

Licence

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