MicroPython library for text to speech conversion #14378
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Any particular language? Are you expecting the quality of online TTS systems? Hardware is typically not so good. If English (or Mandarin) TTS with some limitations works for you, I wrote a crude library to drive a YuTone VoiceTX SYN6988 board: YuTone VoiceTX SYN6988. These are fairly cheap, and include an amplifier. It only has one voice. Much more expensive (and possibly discontinued) is the Parallax EMIC2 board. It runs an embedded version of DECTalk 5. It uses a simple serial interface. It sounds a little robotic, but the advantage that DECTalk has for real TTX applications is that it can still be intelligible at very high words-per-minute values. (I seem to remember that the micro:bit version of MicroPython included the (ancient, terrible) "SAM" TTS system. It really doesn't sound like words at all.) |
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MicroPython on the Micro:bit has the |
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Have you heard it, though? It's unintelligible. Wouldn't be worth the effort. |
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Yes. You can use MicroPython TTS module. |
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The first of these uses the Google TTS API, which is no longer available. The second one uses micro:bit speech, which is only on that platform and sounds dreadful. The third one is an Arduino project, and unrelated to MicroPython. |
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Not free, but you don't have to pay for the first $200. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/text-to-speech |
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MicroPython support? Looks like it might return a WAV or MP3, which a MicroPython board will struggle to play |
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https://github.com/jacklinquan/micropython-samtts A Python port of Software Automatic Mouth Text-To-Speech program. SAM is the Text-To-Speech (TTS) software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). This project is an unofficial Python port of SAM. It is translated by hand from the adaption to C by Stefan Macke and the refactorings by Vidar Hokstad. As @scruss mentioned, its sound quality is not that good. But I believe it has its use. It adds text-to-speech functionality to very constrained hardware. |
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Thank you for unleashing this code on an unsuspecting world! There's an ongoing project to port microDECTalk to the Raspberry Pi Pico. It has a similar "Abandonware / don't ask" licence. It's a long way off being usable yet |
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I am trying to write a MicroPython code to convert text to speech using a esp32 board, LM386 circuit and a speaker, but i can't find a library for it and i also can't use API because most of them are paid. Is there any library i can use in MicroPython ?
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