Node module for supporting Windows SAPI voices in an Electron app. Outside of Electron your mileage may vary. Windows only. SAPI documentation used for implementation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/speech-technologies/jj127903(v=msdn.10)
Windows
npm install https://www.github.com/coughdrop/sapi_tts.git
The easiest way to use the library is to require tts.js in the
node module. If you require it in the app process then you can do things
like the following:
var tts = require('sapi_tts/tts.js');
tts.getAvailableVoices({success: function(list) {
console.log(list);
}});
tts.speakText({
voice_id: "<voice id from the list>",
text: "hello my friends, I am speaking to you",
success: function() {
console.log("done speaking!");
}
});
tts.stopSpeakingText();
NOTE: The precompiled binaries are for a specific version of Electron, and may need to be recompiled for your version. I'm not smart enough to know how to address this problem, feel free to issue a pull request if you are. In the mean time, I'm going to keep it tied to the version of Electron's node-gyp as used for coughdrop/coughdrop-desktop.
Compiles to a specific version of node, so most likely the compiled binaries won't work for you. You can recompile them using node-gyp
npm install -g node-gyp
node-gyp clean
node-gyp configure --target=vX.X.X --arch=<ia32 or x64>
node-gyp build
MIT License
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