FEST

Ruby wrapper use Festival for speak of the text and scripts ...

Requirements

• nix or OS X (pgrep tools) ...
• Festival and necessary languages ...
• Pulseaudio

Install

# Gemfile
gem 'fest'

or

$ gem install fest

Used

Call methods

require 'fest'

@fest = Fest.new
@fest.say("Пример") # => Say "Пример"

@fest = Fest.new(YAML.load_file('../config/custom.yml'))
@fest.say("This is an example")
# => Say "This is an example"

# All options
# params || default value
params['path'] || '/tmp'
params['flat_volumes'] || 'no' # need pulseaudio flat-volumes = no
params['min_volume'] || 20
params['max_volume'] || 60
params['step'] || 4
params['backlight'] || nil # disable check backlight
params['language'] || 'voice_msu_ru_nsh_clunits'
params['conditions'] || {} # eval config/conditions.yml

## Сustomization

@fest.initialize(params = {})
# check @common_volume
# @path, @index, @min_volume, @max_volume ...

@fest.check_conditions
# eval config/conditions.yml if default conditions

@fest.make_wav(text)

@fest.expect_if_paplay_now
# wait if paplay active ...

@fest.play_wav
# play wav ... with @optimize_volume
# delete_wav

Issues

Level of loudness doesn't dump after an exit

#!/bin/bash

vlc.run --play-and-exit $*
amixer set Master 30% > /dev/null 2>&1

or

; pulseaudio config

flat-volumes = no ; yes