speech
Speech software

How to launch

  1. First, follow the steps described in the installation instructions.
  2. Be sure you have a sound speaker connected to your computer and correctly configured (you can do that using alsamixer or directly in the sound settings).
  3. Run espeakServer --name /tts on the terminal.

How to configure it

Once the speech software has started, connect it through the opened yarp port using yarp rpc /tts/rpc:s in another terminal. You can see all the available commands writing the help command:

Responses:
*** Available commands:
setLanguage
setSpeed
setPitch
getSpeed
getPitch
getSupportedLang
say
play
pause
stop
checkSayDone
help

Examples of use

>> say "Hello Teo"
>> setPitch 200
>> say "Hello Teo"
>> setLanguage mb-es1
>> say "Hola Teo"
>> setSpeed 10
>> say "Hola Teo"
>> setLanguage mb-en1
>> say "It's very cool"