python-acapela

============== python-acapela

:Author: Arezqui Belaid :Description: Python wrapper for text-to-speech synthesis with Acapela :Company: Developed by Star2Billing http://www.star2billing.com

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Python Acapela Wrapper

python-acapela is a library to produce a text-to-speech file using Acapela_ web services.

.. _Acapela: http://acapela-vaas.com/

Quickstart

::

import acapela

ACCOUNT_LOGIN = 'EVAL_XXXX'
APPLICATION_LOGIN = 'EVAL_XXXXXXX'
APPLICATION_PASSWORD = 'XXXXXXXX'
SERVICE_URL = 'http://vaas.acapela-group.com/Services/Synthesizer'

tts_acapela = acapela.Acapela(ACCOUNT_LOGIN, APPLICATION_LOGIN, APPLICATION_PASSWORD, SERVICE_URL, '22k', '/tmp/')
tts_acapela.prepare(text=u"Hola! Buenos días", lang='ES', gender='W', intonation='NORMAL')
output_filename = tts_acapela.run()

print "Recorded TTS to %s" % output_filename

Features

• Produce text to speech in different languages, see list of languages supported : http://www.acapela-vaas.com/ReleasedDocumentation/voices_list.php

• Support different type of audio quality 22Hz, 8Hz

• Provide voices of different gender and intonation

Installation

Install, upgrade and uninstall python-acapela.py with these commands::

$ sudo pip install python-acapela $ sudo pip install --upgrade python-acapela $ sudo pip uninstall python-acapela

Or if you don't have pip::

$ sudo easy_install python-acapela

Example usage and output

::

$ Usage: python-acapela -acclogin -applogin -p -t [-q ] [-d ] [-url <service_url>] [-h]

$ Output : Recorded TTS to /tmp/ACAPELA-8895934760117809679-ES.mp3

Feedback

Your feedback is more than welcome. Write email to [e-mail] or post bugs and feature requests on github:

http://github.com/areski/python-acapela/issues

Extra information

Newfies-Dialer, an open source Auto Dialer software, uses this module to synthetize audio files being play to the end-user. Further information about Newfies-Dialer can be found at http://www.newfies-dialer.org

This module is built and supported by Star2Billing : http://www.star2billing.com

Similar library in Ruby : https://github.com/mheld/acapela-ruby

Source download

The source code is currently available on github. Fork away!

http://github.com/areski/python-acapela

History

0.2.4 (2015-04-15)

• Fix UK language

0.2.3 (2015-04-15)

• Fix US language

0.2.1 (2012-10-03)

• Add License file, Manifest, Authors

0.2 (2012-10-03)

• Improve setup.py, credits to https://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor/blob/develop/setup.py
• PEP8 Fixes

0.1 (2012-05-26)

• First release.