google-home-speak

Cast google translate voice to google home device

Functions

1.init

initializes connection to your google home device
has only one argument which is ip: string, this should be ip address of your google home
returns promise resolving as connected media reciver object (castv2-client lib)

2.speak

sends string to google translate, gets the audio mime and sends it to initialized google home device
arguments are text: string, this is the sentence to say and lang: string, this is language in which is the text (default en)
returns promise resolving to object with info about played media
promise resolves after (download time + audio duration + 200ms)

Installation

~~(I might add it to npm/yarn later)~~
~~npm install github:mikro8/google-home-speak~~
npm install google-home-speak

Example

const googleHomeSpeak = require("google-home-speak");

(async () => {
  const sc = new googleHomeSpeak();
  await sc.init("192.168.1.207");

  const speak = [
    "Hello my name is bixby",
    "Actually i was lying",
    "HA HA HA",
    "Ich spreche Deutsch|de",
    "Ja mówię po polsku|pl",
    "я говорю по-русски|ru",
    "Vorbesc romaneste|ro",
  ];

  for (let i = 0; i < speak.length; i++) {
    const txt = speak[i].split("|")[0];
    const lang = speak[i].split("|")[1] || "en";
    await sc.speak(txt, lang);
  }

  process.exit();
})();