NAME
Speech::Swift::Simple - Simplified extension for Speech::Swift, a Perl extension for
the Cepstral Text-to-Speech Engine (Swift)
SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Speech::Swift::Simple;
my $s = new Speech::Swift::Simple(channels => 1, encoding =>
Speech::Swift::AUDIO_ENCODING_PCM16);
$s->set_voice("Allison");
my $wave = $s->generate("My name is allison");
$wave->write("test.wav");
DESCRIPTION
new(...)
"encoding"
OPTIONAL: specify the encoding method to use for the output audio- see
Speech::Swift defaults to Speech::Swift::AUDIO_ENCODING_PCM16
"channels"
OPTIONAL: specify the number of channels to use, either 1 or 2; defaults to
1.
"deadair"
OPTIONAL: include deadair in audio output, either 1 or 0; defaults to 0;
set_voice($voice_name)
Set the Cepstral voice to use for this Text-to-Speech generation.
$voice_name is the name of the voice to use.
$s->set_voice("Allison");
get_voices()
Returns a hash reference list of the currently available voices on the system.
$voices = $s->get_voices();
generate($text)
Generates audio for the given text, and returns a new
Speech::Swift::Simple::Wave object with the audio.
$text is the text to synthesize.
See the Speech::Swift::Simple::Wave man page for more details.
$wave = $s->generate("My name is allison");
DEPENDENCIES
Speech::Swift PERL Module
SEE ALSO
Cepstral -
http://cepstral.com/
AUTHOR
Mike Pultz <
[email protected]>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011, Mike Pultz <
[email protected]>. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
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