text2speech is an Ethereum ready dapp that uses mimic text-to-speech engine to convert text files to speech and save them in wav format.

Bring your text files together in a folder (exp: DATADIR) and add an input-config.yml file in the same folder. This configuration defines parameters for each text to be pronounced and it should respect the following format:

<imagename 1>:
    voice: <voice name>
    latency: <value>
<imagename 2>:
    voice: <voice name>
    latency: <value>

You can keep voice and latency values empty the app will use default values ("ap" as voice and 1.0 as latency).

In the app/app-config.yml file, change the datadir parameter to the path of your folder (DATADIR for our example) and run the script.

$ git clone https://github.com/Zied-Guesmi/text2speech.git && cd text2speech/
$ sed -i "s/\/iexec/<path/to/datadir/folder>/" app/app-config.yml
$ python3 app/src/app.py

You shoud find your speech files in the DATADIR/out/ folder.

English (for now).

Male: ap, awb_time, awb, kal, kal16, rms.
Female: slt_hts, slt.
See voice samples here.

• python3
• mimic tts engine

After installing docker and preparing your DATADIR folder, just grab the docker image from dockerhub and run it

$ docker run -v abs/path/to/datadir:/iexec/ ziedguesmi/text2speech

Or you can build your own image from dockerfile:

# clone the dapp
$ git clone https://github.com/Zied-Guesmi/text2speech.git && cd text2speech/ 

# build the docker image
$ docker build -t text2speech .

# run the container
$ docker run -v abs/path/to/datadir:/iexec/ text2speech

Install system dependencies:

# ubuntu as an example
$ apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    automake \
    gcc \
    git \
    libasound2-dev \
    libsm6 \
    libtool \
    make \
    pkg-config \
    python3 \
    python3-pip \
    unzip \
    wget

Install mimic tts engine

$ git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic.git && cd mimic
$ ./dependencies.sh --prefix="/usr/local"
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix="/usr/local"
$ make

Clone the app:

$ git clone https://github.com/Zied-Guesmi/text2speech.git

Install python depedencies:

$ cd text2speech/
$ pip3 install -r app/requirements.txt

• Support more languages.
• Add more mimic voices.
• Reduce mimic docker image size.

• Zied Guesmi

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details