txt2wave

This program converts a text file to a .wav file. For this linux software Pico2Wave is used. What Pico2Wave does is that it takes limited number of characters for text-to-speech conversion. This program solves this problem.

Prerequisites

System : the compliant systems under linux kernels: Debian, Ubuntu, Maemo ...

The SVOX Pico engine is a software speech synthesizer for German, English (GB and US), Spanish, French and Italian.

Installation required :

- svox (pico2wave) https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/svox
- ffmpeg to convert wav to mp3 files (sudo apt-get install ffmpeg)

Svox package maemo dispnible on https://openrepos.net/

Installation order:

- libttspico-data (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-data)
- libttspico0 (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico0)
- libttspico-utils (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-utils)
- libttspico-dev (https://openrepos.net/content/mickaelh/libttspico-dev)
or
- sudo apt-get install libttspico0 libttspico-utils libttspico-data

Usage

There are options given for the command-line input, which would basically provide the user specifications of what type of speech does he/she wants. The options are as follows :

Options:
    -i, --input_text_file   reads a text file
    -o, --output-folder   destination folder (defaults to current folder)
    -l, --lang  Language (default: default_lang)

Options for languages :
    en-US   English
    en-GB   Great Britain
    de-DE   German
    es-ES   Spanish
    fr-FR   French
    it-IT   Italian

Command-line Input Type:

$ ./text2wav.py [-i|--input_text_file] <input text file name> [-l|--lang fr-FR] [-o|--output-folder] <output directory>

Help Option :
    -h, --Help  Show this message

NOTE: the optional parameter [-l | --lang] by default = en-GB

In the current directory of "text2wav.py" it will generate the audio_book.wav file.