emicklei / gspeech

simple tool that uses the Text-to-Speech API in the Google Cloud Platform

gspeech

Simple tool that uses the Google Text-to-Speech API

requirements

• GCP project with Text-to-Speech API enabled
• Create a Serviceaccount with Owner permissions :-(
• Generate and download an API key for this service account (call it service-account-key.json)

install

This step requires the Go SDK.

go install

usage

Usage of gspeech:
-g string
        male|female|neutral (default "female")
-i string
        text or ssml file name
-l string
        English (Austrialia) (default "en-AU")
-p	also play the result next to generating the MP3
-v string
        pick a voice from https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices (default "en-AU-Wavenet-C")

run

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=service-account-key.json gspeech -p -i welcome.ssml

about ssml

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml