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Speech to Text Conversion
Initializing the pyttx3 engine
pyttsx3 is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python, pyttx3 engine is initialized and used for text to speech conversion.
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'''Initialize the pyttx3 engine for speech recognization'''
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engine = pyttsx3.init()
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pyttsx3 is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.
Included Text to Speech Conversion engines are
- sapi5
- nsss
- espeak
Voice Speed Property
This is the rate at which Aryan or Aryan speaks the Text, Default being 200. Currently 150 is assigned as the rate to have clear voice.
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engine.setProperty("rate", 150)
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Voice Assignment
Voice is assigned for the respective AI Friend (Aryan or Arya), Also Voice assignment is based on Operating System. Different voice are assigned if Aryan is running on Windows or Linux.
For Windows (Dev and Testing)
- Arya - Zira Voice (Female) is assigned to Arya
- Aryan - David Voice (Male) is assigned to Aryan
Linux ( Testing and Prod)
- Arya - 'english_rp+f3' is assigned to Arya.
- Aryan - 'english_rp+m1' is assigned to Aryan.
*Female voice is not available for the default 60 voices available in pyaudio lib, thus voices from epeak lib are used in Linux.
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if aifriend == "Arya":
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#For Linux Female voice is set to english_rp+f3
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engine.setProperty('voice', 'english_rp+f3')
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#For Windows Female voice is set to Zira
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engine.setProperty('voice', "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-US_ZIRA_11.0")
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else:
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#For Linux male voice is set to english_rp+m1
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engine.setProperty('voice', 'english_rp+m1')
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#For Windows Male voice is set to David
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engine.setProperty('voice', "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-US_DAVID_11.0")
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Engine Execution
Engine is executed to convert text into speech for the given text (command). Snippet below.
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engine.say(command)
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engine.runAndWait()
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engine.runAndWait(): This function makes the speech audible in the system.
Last modified 7mo ago