Translate text to speech using Google Cloud on the command line.
You can find prebuilt binaries under releases. Download the binary for your system and you're good to go.
Make sure to provide your Google Cloud credentials by setting the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
as described on this page.
$ GoCloudTTS --help
Usage: GoCloudTTS [OPTIONS] text
OPTIONS:
-cache-dir string
set the cache directory for voice files (default "/tmp/gocloudtts/cache")
-language string
set the language code of the input text (default "en-US")
-voice-name string
set the name of the voice which should be used (default "en-US-Standard-C")
You can find a list of supported languages and voices here.
The following command will translate the text "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" and play it through aplay.
$ GoCloudTTS "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" | aplay
To change the language use the parameters -language and -voice-name.
$ GoCloudTTS -language ja-JP -voice-name ja-JP-Standard-A "おまえ わ もう しんでいる! なに?!"