hbouvier / node-tts

A Text To Speech server, running only on Mac OS X (for now)

#TTS Server

This is a simple Text To Speech (TTS) server that run on Mac OS X. You can try the basic sample, by entering http://localhost:8082/ and entrering some text to be played. This sample queue automatically the text entered in the fields when you modify it and will be played when you hit the play button. If you want to hear them a second time you will have to either modify the text or press the 'ReQueueAll' button before pressing Play again.

Installation

npm install

To start the WebService

npm start

To try it out

You can use it by hitting the WebService (WS) directly in your favorite web browser

open http://localhost:8082/api/v1/tts.json/play/Fred/Hello%20World

Will play "hello world" using the voice Fred.

Supported voice on Lion are:

Kathy, Vicki, Victoria or Alex, Bruce, Fred

Have fun.

You can also use curl to pre-generate an audio file:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"voice":"Alex","text":"hello world"}' 'http://localhost:8082/api/v1/tts.json/generate?api_key=node-tts-key-id'

And you can look at the REST API docs at

http://localhost:8082/docs

node-tts's Issues

mac local or web also

Wll this only run on local mac or can i expose this (along with the voices) to the web as well (ie. using a node web-hosting)?
Thanks for the great work

License?

Hello,

I like this project and would like to use it, but it has no license so I'm not sure I can. Could you slap a license onto it in some way?

Regards,
René

Push latest to npm

The version that is in npm does not work. Primarily because package.json states that it depends on latest version of express, which is incompatible.

I see you have fixed that, could you please push a new version to npm.