simpletts

simpletts

A basic tss manager, based on Microsoft Speech API or espeak for others OS

Installation

$ npm install simpletts

Espeak (if not SAPI)

• On Linux

$ apt-get install espeak

• Or, download installer

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html

Features

• simply read & play text

Doc

interface Voice {
	name: string,
	gender: string ("male"|"female")
}

interface Options {
	text: string,
	< voice: Voice|string, >
	< integer volume, > // percentage, 0 -> 100, default 100
	< integer speed > // percentage, 0 -> 100, default 50
}

• forceEspeak: boolean (default = false)
• defaultVoice: Voice (default = null)
• getTTSSystem(void): string ("sapi"|"espeak")
• setDefaultVoice(Voice): void
• getVoices(void): Promise<resolve<Array<Voice>>|reject<Error>>
• read(Options|string): Promise<resolve<void>|reject<Error>>

Examples

const SimpleTTS = require('simpletts');
const tts = new SimpleTTS();

tts.getVoices().then((voices) => {

	console.log(voices[0].name);
	console.log(voices[0].gender);

}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

tts.read({ "text": "this is a test", "volume": 75, "speed": 60 }).then(() => {
	console.log('Ok');
}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

tts.read("this is a test").then(() => { // is equal to { "text": "this is a test", "voice": voices[0], "volume": 100, "speed": 50 }
	console.log('Ok');
}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

Tests

$ gulp

License

ISC