voice_text

ROS Interface for HOYA VoiceText Speech Synthesis Engine

Installation

1. Install VoiceText SDK
2. Put license file
3. Build this package

cd /path/to/catkin_workspace
catkin build voice_text

Usage

1. Launch voice_text node

roslaunch voice_text voice_text.launch

TIPS If you want to launch VoiceText engine on remote machine, try creating launch file like below:

<launch>
  <machine name="remote" address="192.168.0.3" />
  <include file="$(find voice_text)/launch/voice_text.launch">
    <arg name="machine" value="remote" />
  </include>
</launch>

1. Say

Now speech synthesis is enabled.

rosrun sound_play say.py Hello! dummy 1.0 robotsound:=robotsound_jp

Robot says "Hello!"

Reference

Service

• text_to_speech (voice_text/TextToSpeech)

Set text_path for path to text file that contains speech sentences. Set wave_path for path to generated wave file to be generated. If ok in response is set to true, wave file is generated successfully.

Parameters

• ~db_path (String, default: "/var/vt/sayaka/M16")

Path to VoiceText database directory.

• ~license_path (String, default: "")

Path to VoiceText license file. If this parameter is empty, SDK tries to search data-common/verify directory relative to db_path.

Dynamic Parameters

• ~pitch (Int, default: 100)

Pitch of voice by percentage. Speaks higher if this parameter is higher than 100.

• ~speed (Int, default: 100)

Speed of speech by percentage.

• ~volume (Int, default: 100)

Volumet of speech by percentage.

• ~pause (Int, default: 800)

Pause duration between sentences by milliseconds.

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