taikit / open_jtalk-ruby

ruby bindings of Open JTalk.

OpenJtalk::Ruby

This is ruby gem of Open JTalk.

This ruby gem has "Battery Included" philosophy. You don't need extra gems or libs except writing a result as mp3.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'open_jtalk-ruby', git: 'git://github.com/sunny4381/open_jtalk-ruby.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ git clone git://github.com/sunny4381/open_jtalk-ruby.git
$ cd open_jtalk-ruby
$ gem build open_jtalk-ruby.gemspec
$ gem install open_jtalk-ruby-0.4.gem

Usage

require 'open_jtalk'
text = "こんにちは。".encode("UTF-8")

OpenJtalk.load(OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::NORMAL) do |openjtalk|
  header, data = openjtalk.synthesis(openjtalk.normalize_text(text))

  OpenJtalk::WaveFileWriter.save("a.wav", header, data)
end

Configuration

open_jtalk-ruby contains these configurations:

• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::NORMAL: this is default configuration of female model.
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::ANGRY
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::BASHFUL
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::HAPPY
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::SAD
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::FAST
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::SLOW
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::HIGH
• OpenJtalk::Config::Mei::LOW
• OpenJtalk::Config::Nitech::NORMAL: this is default configuration of male model.
• OpenJtalk::Config::Nitech::FAST
• OpenJtalk::Config::Nitech::SLOW
• OpenJtalk::Config::Nitech::HIGH
• OpenJtalk::Config::Nitech::LOW

Writer

open_jtalk-ruby contains these writers:

• OpenJtalk::WaveFileWriter: WAV File Writer.
• OpenJtalk::Mp3FileWriter: MP3 File Writer. this writer requires 'lame'(>= 0.0.3) and libmp3lame.so.

MP3 Streaming Synthesizer

You can simply set OpenJtalk::Mp3StreamingSynthesizer instance to your controller's response_body if you are developing rails application.

response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'audio/mp3'
response_body = OpenJtalk::Mp3StreamingSynthesizer.new(config, text)

A controller responds mp3 data stream in chunked encoding.

Supported Encoding

open_jtalk-ruby supports only UTF-8.

Supported Platform

Platforma	Support
Windows	NO
Linux	YES
Mac	YES
Other Unix	Meybe YES

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/sunny4381/open_jtalk-ruby/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

open_jtalk-ruby contains several sub modules, and each module has released under its own license.

• open_jtalk-ruby is released under BSD 2 Clause.
• open_jtalk is released under Modified BSD license.
• hts_engine_api is released under Modified BSD license.
• MeCab is released under New BSD License.