PTeSpeak

Do you want your iPhone/iPad to speak Georgian? Or any other language ? PTeSpeak is a wrapper class for popular open source engine eSpeak.

How to build demo app

• Git clone PTeSpeak demo app to your local disk.
• Download the latest eSpeak development version at Downlaod. Extract and copy entire directory espeak-1.46.14 to your just cloned PTeSpeak directory.
• Open PTeSpeak.xcodeproj XCode project and run demo app.

Note: You need XCode 4.0 in order to build and run demo app.

How to use

1. Copy PTeSpeak.m and PTeSpeak.h files to your source tree and add it to XCode project.
2. Implement PTeSpeakDelegate protocol.
3. Add AudioToolbox.framework to your project.
4. Just #import the PTeSpeak.h header

#import "PTeSpeak.h"

Example of how to create PTeSpeak class to synthesize speech:

PTeSpeak *espeak = [PTeSpeak sharedPTeSpeak];

[espeak setDelegate:self];
[espeak setupWithVoice:@"ka" volume:100 rate:150 pitch:40];
[espeak speak:@"ფიცარი"];

Your class will have to implement the PTeSpeakDelegate protocol, and to implement the speakDidStart:, speakDidEnd: and speakWithError:error: methods from this protocol:

- (void)speakDidStart:(PTeSpeak *)espeak
{
    NSLog(@"Start speaking…");
}

- (void)speakDidEnd:(PTeSpeak *)espeak
{
    NSLog(@"Stop speaking…");
}

- (void)speakWithError:(PTeSpeak *)espeak error:(OSStatus)error
{
    NSLog(@"Error %d while speaking", error);
}

Class References

PTeSpeak

setupWithVoice

- (NSInteger)setupWithVoice:(NSString*)voiceName volume:(NSInteger)volume rate:(NSInteger)rate pitch:(NSInteger)pitch

Setup espeak engine. voiceName - Languge ISO2 code (e.g. ka - Georgian, en - English) volume - Voice amplitude (0 to 200) rate - Speed in words per minute (80 to 450) pitch - Pitch adjustment (0 to 99)

speak

- (void)speak:(NSString*)text

text to speak.

isSpeak

- (BOOL)isSpeak

Check speak status.

stop

- (BOOL)stop

Stop speaking.

pause

- (BOOL)pause

Pause speaking.

start

- (BOOL)start

Start speaking.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Picktek LLC

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