QPicoSpeaker

QPicoSpeaker is a Qt text to speech (TTS) GUI for the pico2wave console application.

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Motivation

I had sound problems with the Gespeaker UI for espeak and I also was unhappy with the robotic sounds from espeak.
As better solution for the unstatisfied TTS situation on the Linux desktop I develop this application.

Third party requirements:

• qt5 + qt5-multimedia
• pico2wave
• sox
• mplayer for Google TTS

Install requirements:

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install sox mplayer libttspico-utils

For building you also need qt5 + multimedia packages:
sudo apt-get install qt5-default qtmultimedia5-dev

• git clone https://github.com/Shadowsith/qpicospeaker
• cd qpicospeaker
• sudo ./install.sh

Install paths:

• Binary: /usr/bin/qpicospeaker
• Config: /home/<user>/.config/qpicospeaker/config.xml

To uninstall QPicospeaker write ./install.sh --uninstall

If the project is in a more finished state there will be a package in the Ubuntu launchpad too.

Arch Linux

There is a offical maintained package in the AUR: yay -S qpicospeaker-git

Tested Systems

• Manjaro/Arch Linux (KDE)
• Ubuntu (MATE) 18.04

Supported languages (TTS):

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• German
• Spain
• French
• Italian

Implemented features

• Write a text in the textinput and let it say from the TTS engine
• Change speak, loudness and pitch form the TTS software
• Load/save textfile form/to textinput field
• Save output file to the location what you want
• Logo/Icon
• Connection to Google Translate TTS engine

Upcomming features

• Default Settings
• Translation to other languages
• All Languages for Google TTS
• removing mplayer to curl
• resizing UI
• Help documentation

Future planned

• eSpeak speech synthesizer as alternative to pico2wave and Google
• IBM Watson TTS support

Restictions

• no male voice for Google TTS (no acces about connection string possible)

Screenshots

License

• Project is free software and licensed under GPLv3+
• Logo and GIMP Project are public domain (CC0)