Install

gem"espeak-ruby",require:"espeak"

Examples

# Speaks "YO!"speech=ESpeak::Speech.new("YO!")speech.speak# invokes espeak# Creates hello-de.mp3 filespeech=ESpeak::Speech.new("Hallo Welt",voice:"de")speech.save("hello-de.mp3")# invokes espeak + lame# Lists voicesESpeak::Voice.all.map{ |v|v.language}# ["af", "bs", "ca", "cs", "cy", "da", "de", "el", "en", "en-sc", "en-uk", "en-uk-north", "en-uk-rp", "en-uk-wmids", "en-us", "en-wi", "eo", "es", "es-la", "fi", "fr", "fr-be", "grc", "hi", "hr", "hu", "hy", "hy", "id", "is", "it", "jbo", "ka", "kn", "ku", "la", "lv", "mk", "ml", "nci", "nl", "no", "pap", "pl", "pt", "pt-pt", "ro", "ru", "sk", "sq", "sr", "sv", "sw", "ta", "tr", "vi", "zh", "zh-yue"]# Find particular voiceESpeak::Voice.find_by_language('en')#<ESpeak::Voice:0x007fe1d3806be8 @language="en", @name="default", @gender="M", @file="default">

Features

:voice=>'en'# use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices:pitch=>50# pitch adjustment, 0 to 99:speed=>170# speed in words per minute, 80 to 370:capital=>170# increase emphasis (pitch) of capitalized words, 1 to 40 (for natural sound, can go higher):amplitude=>150# amplitude (volume) adjustment, 0 to 200

Speech.new("Zdravo svete",voice:"sr",pitch:90,speed:200).speak

Installing dependencies

OS X

brew install espeak lame

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install espeak lame

Licence