This program converts a text file to a .wav file. For this linux software Pico2Wave is used. What Pico2Wave does is that it takes limited number of characters for text-to-speech conversion. This program solves this problem.
System : the compliant systems under linux kernels: Debian, Ubuntu, Maemo ...
The SVOX Pico engine is a software speech synthesizer for German, English (GB and US), Spanish, French and Italian.
Installation required :
- svox (pico2wave) https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/svox
- ffmpeg to convert wav to mp3 files (sudo apt-get install ffmpeg)
Svox package maemo dispnible on https://openrepos.net/
Installation order:
- libttspico-data (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-data)
- libttspico0 (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico0)
- libttspico-utils (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-utils)
- libttspico-dev (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-dev)
or
- sudo apt-get install libttspico0 libttspico-utils libttspico-data
There are options given for the command-line input, which would basically provide the user specifications of what type of speech does he/she wants. The options are as follows :
Options:
-i, --input_text_file reads a text file
-o, --output-folder destination folder (defaults to current folder)
-l, --lang Language (default: default_lang)
Options for languages :
en-US English
en-GB Great Britain
de-DE German
es-ES Spanish
fr-FR French
it-IT Italian
Command-line Input Type:
$ ./text2wav.py [-i|--input_text_file] <input text file name> [-l|--lang fr-FR] [-o|--output-folder] <output directory>
Help Option :
-h, --Help Show this message
NOTE: the optional parameter [-l | --lang] by default = en-GB
In the current directory of "text2wav.py" it will generate the audio_book.wav file.
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