pico2wave.js

pico2wave.js

This is a port of the pico2wave command line tool from the Pico text-to-speech engine to JavaScript made with Emscripten.

Limitations & contributions

To limit the size of the JavaScript library only the English (Great Britain, United States) and French languages are supported for the moment. Any contribution aimed at improving the portability of other languages supported by Pico TTS while limiting the final size of the library is welcome. The idea being, why not, to load the language files on the fly.

Example

To see how to use this library in a web browser see the examples folder.

Building (with Docker)

Docker must be installed:

docker build -t local/emscripten:1.37.36 ./.github/actions/build-with-emscripten
docker run --rm -ti -v $(pwd):/src -u $(id -u):$(id -g) local/emscripten:1.37.36 make

Building (without Docker)

The Emscripten framework must be installed and configured before compiling the package: Download and install Emscripten. Also, automake and libtool must be installed from your distribution repositories.

Then execute the following command to use the recipe in the Makefile:

npm run build

Publishing

To publish this package to the npm repo:

npm publish

License

The code of Pico TTS being under Apache 2 license, this port keeps the same license. However, some restrictions exist in the original package, making it a non-free library, especially regarding language files. For more information see this page: Copyright for svox source package.