jaycbhsn/s2c-hardware-app

An open source AAC Text to Speech app which runs on Linux x86 and ARM systems (such as Raspberry Pi).

S2C Hardware App

An open source AAC Text to Speech app which runs on Linux x86 and ARM systems (such as Raspberry Pi).

Author: Jacob Hansen

TTS Engine provided by Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Versions 0.1.1 and later require ffmpeg to be installed. To install it, use the following command with superuser privilege:

apt install ffmpeg

Installation:

First, install the required packages with pip, and run this on Python 3.7 or later AS ROOT/with sudo (This was built on Python 3.10): On Ubuntu:

wget https://github.com/jaycbhsn/S2C-Hardware-App/raw/main/requirements.txt
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

On Rasbian/Debian:

su
wget https://github.com/jaycbhsn/S2C-Hardware-App/raw/main/requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

You will also need Tkinter to run the GUI. To install it, run the following command:

sudo apt install python3-tk

Once the requirements are installed, hollow the instructions for the most up to date release or an older release if you prefer:

Current Release

If you choose to use a different TTS engine such as Espeak (not recommended), use the flag '--default_tts' and install espeak on your OS with:

apt-get install espeak -y