ExtraTTS

Used to offer additional speech synthesis engines in cordova apps.

Requirements

Built on top of Acapela's speech engine. On both Android and iOS you'll need to raeach out to Acapela to get the needed libraries and license files. Demo packages should work for testing. For iOS you'll include the license file once you get it. For Android you'll need to replace the code in the init method in ExtraTTS.java with your license code. Look for TTS.setLicense and you'll find the lines that need to be changed.

Usage

cordova plugin add https://www.github.com/coughdrop/extra-tts.git

window.cordova.exec(function(res) {
  console.log('ready!');
}, function(err) {
  console.error('not ready');
}, 'ExtraTTS', 'status', []);

window.cordova.exec(function(list) {
  // list of available voice ids
  console.log(list);
}, function(err) { }, 'ExtraTTS, 'getAvailableVoices', []);

window.cordova.exec(function() {
  console.log("done speaking");
}, function(err) { }, 'ExtraTTS', 'speakText', [{
  voice_id: "<voice id from list>",
  text: "Good afternoon if that's time time"
}]);

License

MIT License

TODO

• add examples (in the mean time, you can see how we're using it in the TTS section here, https://github.com/CoughDrop/coughdrop/blob/master/app/frontend/app/utils/capabilities.js)
• specs (stop judging me, I'm not a native app developer)
• move android license to a config file so nobody has to rewrite code