text2speech

Convert text to speech using AWS Polly.

Dependencies

This depends on oto which has some prerequisites.

Linux

ALSA is required. On Ubuntu or Debian, run this command:

apt install libasound2-dev

On RedHat-based linux distributions, run:

dnf install alsa-lib-devel

Examples

Pipe text:

echo "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." | ./text2speech -bucket your-s3-bucket

File Input

./text2speech -bucket your-s3-bucket -input text

MP3 output:

./text2speech -bucket your-s3-bucket -input text -output audio.mp3 # this will only write the file, it will not play it

Displaying a dashboard to monitor progress

./text2speech -bucket your-s3-bucket -input text -dashboard

Print help:

./text2speech -h