Mac Speech Server

This project runs on Mac OS X systems. You can send text strings to this "server," and it will "read" the text on your Mac system by using the AppleScript say command. If you happen to be using an Akka client, the system can also tell you when it's finished speaking, and you can also cancel the speaking process (such as if it's in the middle of a long blurb, and you don't want to hear any more of it).

This project started out as the server component of my Wikipedia "reader" application.

Motivation

I had the following motivations for creating this project:

1. I use "speech to text" technology in several Scala/Java projects.
2. Trying to get AppleScript to work with Java/Scala on Mac OS X can be a pain.
3. You need to use any "speech to text" AppleScript in a separate JVM, or your main JVM will get bogged down while doing the speaking. I don't know why, but the entire JVM becomes unresponsive when you issue the AppleScript say command/method.

Building the Server

I need to update this process, but the current build process is managed through a series of shell scripts. I created these scripts based on my needs during the development process, and I need to improve how I do some things.

Here's a little description of each script:

• assemble-run.sh builds a single jar file with sbt-assembly and then runs that jar file
• package.sh builds the single jar file
• run-jars.sh runs the existing jar file

Those jar files need to be refactored because they have redundant information in them, but they do work.

License

This software is released under the licensing terms of the GNU GPL Version 3. See the accompanying LICENSE file for more details.