say does not speak Chinese with the right pronunciation

[awei12986]

Hello, The Chinese words '你好' should be pronunced 'ni hao'. But when I try this on windows 10

const Say = require('say').Say;
const say = new Say('win32');
say.speak('你好');

It says something sounds like 'huan chai' to me.
Is that a problem or should I install some more plug-in? Thanks.

[carsonDB]

Actually, nodejs encode string as utf-8 as default, so as say.js. But it seems that platform like win32 decodes it as GBK.
To fix this problem, I forked this repository, and add setEncoding method for Say Class.
You can setEncode('gbk') before speak.
Here is an example.

[silence19]

Actually, nodejs encode string as utf-8 as default, so as say.js. But it seems that platform like win32 decodes it as GBK.
To fix this problem, I forked this repository, and add setEncoding method for Say Class.
You can setEncode('gbk') before speak.
Here is an example.

Thanks for your idea, although I failed to act in your way, as the code doesn't know the 'gbk' code.
However, I worked this out with the encoding package 'iconv-lite' with your guidance. A new solution could be found in my repository, which can be an optional way for the other guys.

[trungphan]

The fix can be as simple as setting the command = 'chcp 65001 >NUL & powershell' instead of 'powershell' in the file win32.js. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68988696/set-utf-8-input-and-get-utf-8-output-through-pipe-to-from-powershell-with-c-c for more info about setting stdin's encoding to be UTF-8.