espeak-ng-crystal

Status: BETA Crystal bindings for eSpeak NG (Next Generation) Text-to-Speech shared library.

Installation

Crystal installation

1. Add this to your application's shard.yml file

name: &YOUR_APP_NAME
version: &YOUR_APP_VERSION

dependencies:
  espeak_ng:
    github: medvedu/espeak_ng.cr
    version: ~> 0.3.3

2. install shard

  $ cd &YOUR_APP_DIR
  $ shards install

3. and now you need to require the lib in your Crystal code:

  require "espeak_ng"

ESpeak shared-library installation

  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install espeak-ng-espeak 

Or via official manual: → github page

Note: linked against → 1.49.1 espeak-ng

Custom voices installation (optional)

See mbrola page.

Usage

  ESpeakNG.say("Message sent!")
  ESpeakNG.say("こんにちは", { speed: 70, lang: "japanese" } )

Or, via class instance:

  bob = ESpeakNG.speaker({ speed: 44, volume: 35, pitch: 50, gap: 0})
  bob.say "One. Two. Three. Four!"

With pre-installed mbrola and mbrola-voices-de1 packages it is possible to use third-party voices (f.e. German female voice used in example below):

  Olga = ESpeakNG.speaker({ speed: 115, lang: "mb-de1" })
  Olga.say "Hallo ich bin deutsches Mädchen!"

TODO

• tests
• add output to stdout | wav file

Dependencies

• Crystal 0.22.0
• eSpeak NG → github page
• mbrola 3.0.1h-5 (optional)

Contributing

• Fork it ( https://github.com/Medvedu/espeak_ng.cr/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request

License

Released under the MIT License. See the → LICENSE file for further details.