SAPI TTS

Node module for supporting Windows SAPI voices in an Electron app. Outside of Electron your mileage may vary. Windows only. SAPI documentation used for implementation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/speech-technologies/jj127903(v=msdn.10)

Requirements

Windows

Usage

npm install https://www.github.com/coughdrop/sapi_tts.git

The easiest way to use the library is to require tts.js in the node module. If you require it in the app process then you can do things like the following:

var tts = require('sapi_tts/tts.js');

tts.getAvailableVoices({success: function(list) {
  console.log(list);
}});

tts.speakText({
  voice_id: "<voice id from the list>",
  text: "hello my friends, I am speaking to you",
  success: function() {
    console.log("done speaking!");
  }
});

tts.stopSpeakingText();

NOTE: The precompiled binaries are for a specific version of Electron, and may need to be recompiled for your version. I'm not smart enough to know how to address this problem, feel free to issue a pull request if you are. In the mean time, I'm going to keep it tied to the version of Electron's node-gyp as used for coughdrop/coughdrop-desktop.

Compiling

Compiles to a specific version of node, so most likely the compiled binaries won't work for you. You can recompile them using node-gyp

npm install -g node-gyp
node-gyp clean
node-gyp configure --target=vX.X.X --arch=<ia32 or x64>
node-gyp build

License

MIT License

TODO

• Better Docs
• Specs