polly_speech

Overview

polly_speech package is text-to-speech engine using Amazon Polly. It support publish visemes that can using lip-sync for robots.

Author(s): Byeong-Kyu Ahn
Maintainer: Byeong-Kyu Ahn, byeongkyu@gmail.com
Affiliation: Robotics Research Group, The Unversity of Auckland

Installation

Building from Source

Dependencies

• boto3: AWS SDK for Python http://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/

    $ sudo pip install -U boto3
  

Building

To build from source, clone the latest version from this repository into your catkin workspace and compile the package using

    $ cd catkin_ws/src
    $ git clone https://github.com/byeongkyu/polly_speech.git
    $ catkin build

Setup on AWS

You should join to AWS for using Amazon Polly. Visit https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console and make account. Next, go to Identity and Access Management and make users, get aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key.

Config File

Just copy config.yaml.template to config.yaml and fill the access information that you can get above

Usage

    rosrun polly_speech polly_speech_node.py _config_file:=path_to/config.yaml

Nodes

polly_speech_node

Subscribed Topics

• /speech_action ([polly_speech/SpeechAction])

    Text to speech.
  

Published Topics

• /lipsync_vowel ([std_msgs/String])

    String for lipsync
  

Bugs & Feature Requests

Please report bugs and request features using the JIRA.