simpletss

A basic tss manager, based on Microsoft Speech API or espeak for others OS

Installation

$ npm install simpletss

Espeak (if not SAPI)

• On Linux

$ apt-get install espeak

• Or, download installer

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html

Features

• simply read & play text

Doc

• static getTTSSystem() : return string 'sapi' or 'espeak'
• static setDefaultVoice(object) : return void
• static getVoices() : return Promise instance

// voice :
{ string name, string gender }

• static read(string) : return Promise instance
• static read(object options) : return Promise instance

// options :
{
	string text,
	object voice | string voiceName, // optionnal, default first language detected
	integer volume, // optionnal, percentage, 0 -> 100, default 100
	integer speed // optionnal, percentage, 0 -> 100, default 50
}

Examples

const simpletts = require('simpletts');

simpletts.getVoices().then((voices) => {

	console.log(voices[0].name);
	console.log(voices[0].gender);

}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

simpletts.read({ text: "this is a test", volume: 75, speed: 60 }).then(() => {
	console.log('Ok');
}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

simpletts.read("this is a test").then(() => { // is equal to { text: "this is a test", voice: voices[0], volume: 100, speed: 50 }
	console.log('Ok');
}).catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

Tests

$ mocha tests/tests.js

License

ISC