

After that, you' get instant, personalized feedback on how well you did, including how quickly you speak, how dynamic you sound, and a filler word counter (your um's and ah's). Use the voice recorder to practice for an interview, a debate team event, or speaking off-the-cuff (like giving a wedding toast). Have you dreamed of giving your own "I Have a Dream" speech? Ever feel like anxiety has gotten the best of you when you were on stage? Speeko will teach you the core speaking techniques to achieve effective delivery of your message when it matters most. Public speaking practice and instant feedback. With this configuration, I can use a device named 'antechamber': pcm.Speak with confidence. I am not an expert at asound configuration, but here is a sample that works for me. The second optional argument should be a name from your asound config. The first argument can be any string you would like read aloud. and if other calls to say() with the same type (info) happen before this call is finished, they will be suppressed. Say('problem', 'antechamber', 'info') // => "problem" is spoken from the speaker set connected to a device named "antechamber" in the asoundrc, Say('test', 'antechamber') // => "test" is spoken from the speaker set connected to a device named "antechamber" in the asoundrc. Say say('hello') // => "Hello" is spoken from the default speakers. Usage const say = require('pico-speako') // => loads the function to read English.`Ĭonst say = require('pico-speako')('es-ES') // => loads the function to read Spanish. This is passed as a single argument at any time, try it on the require (see below). Valid languages: en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, & it-IT. When using this env var, all sound will come from the same device, overriding device arguments. If you need to change audio output devices in different environments, you can set an environment variable named PICO_SPEAKO_DEVICE=default or whatever your alternative speaker is.

You need to configure asound on your own. If you can't get that working, this package will be useless. You can test pico with pico2wave -l=en-GB -w=/tmp/pico.wav "big chungus" & aplay /tmp/pico.wav
#Speeko speaker install#
Install pico: sudo apt-get install libttspico0 libttspico-utils libttspico-data alsa-utils -y wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb buster non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list This is not needed in older versions (Buster). If you are using Raspbian Stretch, you need to add these non-free libs. Install pico - please refer to offical documentation to get pico installed on your system, but these notes work for me: Make sure the volume is set at a reasonable level with the alsamixer. This uses aplay, which is already installed. If you want to use sound output besides the default output, you will need to configure your asound. You will need to install pico speaker, which will need some libraries added on Stretch (see below). In addition, I needed to specify to send the audio to different devices on the fly. pico-speako ignores successive calls of the same message or type of message while one is already playing. The existing packages had the occasional error, and also could not handle many successive calls. I am often testing the pin inputs from far away. I needed a way to get audible feedback from my raspberry pi while I was not watching the terminal. This node package handles text to speech on linux/raspberry pi, supporting mutliple output devices (as arguments) and suppresses repeated calls.
