expo-edge-speech

Microsoft Edge text-to-speech for Expo and React Native

Description

expo-edge-speech is a text-to-speech library for Expo and React Native applications that provides high-quality voice synthesis using Microsoft's Edge TTS service. It offers a drop-in replacement for expo-speech with enhanced features including 400+ natural voices, better voice quality, word boundary events, and cross-platform support for both iOS and Android.

Installation

For Expo Projects

npm install expo-edge-speech

For React Native Projects

React Native projects need Expo to use this library (and its dependencies):

# Install Expo (if not already installed)
npm install expo@sdk-52

# Install the library
npm install expo-edge-speech

Requirements

• Expo SDK 52 or higher
• iOS 15.1+ / Android API 24+
• React Native 0.76.9+

Usage

import * as Speech from 'expo-edge-speech';

// Basic text-to-speech
await Speech.speak('Hello world');

// With options
await Speech.speak('Welcome to my app!', {
  voice: 'en-US-AriaNeural',
  rate: 1.2,
  onDone: () => console.log('Speech completed')
});

Development

To contribute to this project:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/oovz/expo-edge-speech.git

# Install dependencies
cd expo-edge-speech
yarn install

# Run development server (tsc:watch)
yarn dev

# Run example app
cd example-app
npx expo start

Credit

Created by Otaro

Built with:

• expo-av - Audio playback functionality
• expo-crypto - Cryptographic operations
• expo-file-system - File management and caching
• edge-tts - Edge TTS Python library

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.