Speech

A simple text to speech using **SVOXPICO**.

Requirements

The current implementation requires Linux **aplay** command (in the alsa-utils package) to play the generated wave file. This can/should be easily replaced with the yarp portaudio device (audio player).

On Windows systems powershell is employed to play the wave file.

Installation

• $ cd svox-speech
• $ mkdir build && cd build
• $ cmake ..
• tick on the driver speech.
• select a convenient location for installation via CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (refer to this location as $INST_DIR).
• $ make install
• append to the environment variable **YARP_DATA_DIRS** the path $INST_DIR/share/speech.

Testing

$ yarpdev --device speech --lingware-context speech --default-language en-US --pitch 100 --speed 100

$ yarp rpc /icub/speech:rpc
>>help
Responses:
  *** Available commands:
  setLanguage
  setSpeed
  setPitch
  getSpeed
  getPitch
  getSupportedLang
  say
  help

>> say "Hello iCub!"
>> setPitch 200
>> say "Hello iCub!"