pangdudu-swiftly

== swiftly

Hi everybody!

I always wanted my ruby apps to tell me when something is wrong. :)

This is inspired by the gem flite4r I found after lunch. After looking around a bit I found http://www.cepstral.com, which makes some pretty decent unit selection based text to speech stuff.

They have some demo voices, but most of their voices cost around 29$. I couldn't find any "free" TTS unit selection corpora, so if you know one, text me. :)

Oki, it's still pretty basic. It essentially just offers one method:

speak "something"

That's all I need right now, it will be pretty easy to bloat the whole thing with all the stuff cepstrals swift can also do: SSML input, pitch, speed, other voices, etc ...

If you want to do that, feel free, fork or text me and I'll add you to the maintainors.

This is also the first time i've written a C extension for ruby (which is easy, so try it), so if know a prettier way to do what Swiftly.c does, text me.

INSTALL:

Before this will work, you'll need to install a cepstral (5.1) voice and the swift-app and sdk.

It's pretty easy, just go here: http://www.cepstral.com/downloads/ download a voice (comes with the swift-app and sdk) and install it.

then go to lib (that's where my code is) and run: ruby extconf.rb && make

Tada!

I'll build a gem later or so, lazy...

Example code:

require 'swiftly' include Swiftly

class String def to_speech speak self end end

"Test. Test.".to_speech

Have fun!

,nick