smtlaissezfaire / say.js

TTS (text to speech) for node.js. send text from node.js to your speakers.

Installing npm (node package manager)

 curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Installing say.js

 npm install say

usage - Mac OS voices

  var say = require('say'),
  colors = require('colors'),
  sys = require('sys');

  // no callback, fire and forget
  say.speak('Alex', 'whats up, dog?');

  // no callback, fire and forget
  say.speak('Cellos', 'whats up, dog?');

  // output some text to the console as the callback
  say.speak('Good News', 'whats up, dog?', function () {
    sys.puts('text to speech complete'.green);
  });

  // try using translate.js with say.js
  var translate = require('translate');

  translate.text('Yo quero tacos por favor', function(result){
    say.speak('Alex', result);
  });

Usage - Linux

Linux support involves the use of Festival, which uses decidedly less friendly names for its voices. Voices for Festival sometimes need to be installed separately - you can check which voices are available by starting up Festival in interactive mode, typing (voice_, and pressing TAB. Then take the name of the voice you'd like to try, minus the parentheses, and pass it in to say.js.

voices

girls

• Agnes
• Kathy
• Princess
• Vicki
• Victoria

guys

• Albert
• Alex
• Bruce
• Fred
• Junior
• Ralph

others

• Bad News
• Bahh
• Bells
• Boing
• Bubbles
• Cellos
• Deranged
• Good News
• Hysterical
• Pipe Organ
• Trinoids
• Whisper
• Zarvox

fun facts

say.speak calls are asynchronous, lol ^_^

translation provided by translate.js

languages

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese

Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician

Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish

Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian

Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish

Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

Requirements

Mac OS