PeterVanco / MMM-TTS

Text-To-Speech Module for MagicMirror²

MMM-TTS

Text-To-Speech Module for MagicMirror²

Dependencies

• An installation of MagicMirror²
• npm
• say
• festival

Installation

1. Clone this repo into ~/MagicMirror/modules directory.

2. Configure your ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js:

   {
       module: 'MMM-TTS',
       position: 'top_right',
       config: {
           ...
       }
   }
   

3. Run command npm install in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-TTS directory.

4. Run command sudo apt-get install festival.

Config Options

Option	Default	Description
debug	false	Display text to speech.
text	'MMM-TTS'	Text to display in debug mode, while there's no text to speech.
voice	null	If you want another voice than default you have to install it seperately and then fill in the voice name here. http://www.festvox.org/docs/manual-2.4.0/festival_24.html#Voices
speed	1.0	How fast the speech should be.

For Developers

To use MMM-TTS in your module you have to send a socket notification like this this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'This is a text to read. Hello World!');.