README.md

Speech software

How to launch

1. First, follow the steps described in the installation instructions.
2. Be sure you have a sound speaker connected to your computer and correctly configured (you can do that using alsamixer or directly in the sound settings).
3. Run espeakServer --name /tts on the terminal.

How to configure it

Once the speech software has started, connect it through the opened yarp port using yarp rpc /tts/rpc:s in another terminal. You can see all the available commands writing the help command:

Responses:
  *** Available commands:
  setLanguage
  setSpeed
  setPitch
  getSpeed
  getPitch
  getSupportedLang
  say
  play
  pause
  stop
  checkSayDone
  help

Examples of use

>> say "Hello Teo"
>> setPitch 200
>> say "Hello Teo"
>> setLanguage mb-es1
>> say "Hola Teo"
>> setSpeed 10
>> say "Hola Teo"
>> setLanguage mb-en1
>> say "It's very cool"