flite2

npm binding for flite, a tiny text-to-speech synthesizer.

node-flite2 is a fork from the original node-flite made to make it compatible with the current 2.0 version of flite. It also releases a control on the voices, that prevented it from using user-imported voices.

flite2 was developed to be used in combination with the iannitts package.

(copyleft)ianni67 2018. Please share and enjoy.

installation

$ npm install flite2

also requires flite 2.0.x or flite 1.4.x (www) and either aplay(www) or afplay (default on OS X) to be installed and in your $PATH. Working on OSX and linux. Windows is currently untested and likely unsupported.

Flite is super tiny and fast and works great on ARM (eg, robots!), and has a variety of voices available (which are compiled into the binary - you probably want to build it yourself).

example

var flite = require('flite2')

var message = "you know what we need? some more waffles!"

flite(function (err, speech) {
  if (err) { return console.error(err) }
  speech.say(message, function (err) {
    if (err) { return console.error(err) }
    /// make sure to have your sound on :)
  });
});

usage

var flite = require('flite2')
flite([config], callback)

• config object (optional)
• callback: function (err, speech) - initializes and returns a speech object

config is an object with any of the following keys

• voice: string - the name of a voice
• ssml: boolean - treat input as ssml

speech.voices // array

array of valid voice names to use with the voice configuration setting.

speech.config(configObj)

set configuration settings for this instance of speech

speech.say(text, [fileout], callback)

speak the given input string text. if fileout is specified, the wavefile will be writen to that file and not to the speakers. if fileout is omitted, the wavefile will be played immediately. callback is invoked after the wavefile is written or the sound is done playing.

license

Original license: MIT. (c) 2012 jden - Jason Denizac [email protected]

My license: oh well... the same as before.

For this version: (c)ianni67 2018