aisay

aisay means AI Say

Description

This tool generates speech from text using OpenAI's speech API and plays it back.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/vaderyang/aisay

To install the required dependencies, run:

cd aisay
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Run the script with the following command: Setup your openai key

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-***********  

You may alternatively modify aisay.py direclty to put your openai key in client = OpenAI(api_key="sk-****") in a safe machine environment.

python3 aisay.py [arguments]

Arguments:

• string: Text to say
• -v/--voice: Voice model to use (default: onyx)
• -f/--file: Text file to read input from
• -o/--output: Output file path for the generated speech
• -r/--rate: Playback speed of the generated speech (0.25 to 4.0)

Example

python3 aisay.py Hello World

Check the volume settings to make sure you hear the speech.

python3 aisay.py -v echo -o helloworld.mp3 Hello Again!

Extra Installation Options

If you want to make it as a system command for easier access, run:

sudo cp aisay.py /usr/local/bin/aisay
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/aisay
aisay Hello World

if this doesn't work, find out the right path to save your aisay file by

echo $PATH

NOTICE

You may need proxy to connect to the OpenAI API server through export https_proxy environment variable.

License

BSD 2-Clause