normantud / germanphonemetts

German phoneme based TTS

Idea

The idea for this script is very simple: record some phonemes for the german language, split words into phonemes (done by https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer ), and then try to find the longest matching audio file so that the phonemes match.

The result is far from perfect, but way better than I've expected it to be.

Requirements

Sox:

sudo aptitude install sox

Phonemizer:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer /tmp/phonemizer/

cd /tmp/phonemizer

python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

Perl-Modules:

sudo cpan -i Term::ANSIColor

sudo cpan -i Memoize

sudo cpan -i Digest::MD5

How to run it

Edit the main.pl to change the text that should be said.

perl main.pl

Options

--debug Enables debug mode

--nopause Disables pauses between words (doesn't do anything yet)

--language=de Sets the language (doesn't do anything really yet)