Bare Conductive Pi Cap Text To Speech Utility

Example text-input speech synthesis code for the Bare Conductive Pi Cap. You need twelve plain text files named TEXT000.txt to TEXT011.txt in a folder called texts inside this folder. When you touch electrode E0, TEXT000.txt will be read out to you. When you touch electrode E1, TEXT001.txt will be read, and so on. Playback is not polyphonic (espeak can't handle it).

picap-tts-py    
│
└──texts
     TEXT000.txt    
     TEXT001.txt  
     TEXT002.txt  
     TEXT003.txt  
     TEXT004.txt  
     TEXT005.txt  
     TEXT006.txt  
     TEXT007.txt  
     TEXT008.txt  
     TEXT009.txt  
     TEXT010.txt  
     TEXT011.txt  

Requirements

• Requires WiringPi (apt-get install wiringpi)
• Requires Bare Conductive's MPR121 libary for WiringPi
• Requires espeak (apt-get install espeak)
• Requires python-espeak (apt-get install python-espeak)

Install / Build

• You should install this code as part of the Pi Cap Raspbian package: sudo apt-get install picap
• However, if you are doing this yourself, clone the repository, enter it and run make

Usage

python tts.py

N.B. must be run as root