technisculpt/blender-text-to-speech

blender-text-to-speech

blender-text-to-speech

• make audio captions quickly
• options for pitch, rate and different voices
• convert closed captions files to audio (.srt, .srb and .txt) audio strips placed at timecodes if provided
• importing .txt files with no timecodes will place the audio strips in sequence based on order and text length
• import/export to csv file to save pitch/rate and voice options of individual strips
• export the audio clips generated by the tool in your timeline to closed captions files in .srt, .srb and .txt format
• export generates new timecodes based on audio strips starting frames
• convert audio caption strips to text strips for hardcoded/open caption creation
• convert batch audio caption strips to text strips based on template strip to control formatting
• caption data saved to blendfile

Installation:

• To install zip the directory "Text to Speech" and install the addon via preferences menu
• On Windows and Linux this addon will install pyttsx3 to your Blender python interpreter
• Linux users also must open a terminal and type:

sudo apt install -y espeak ffmpeg libespeak1

• Windows users will need to open Blender as administrator for install only

Voice options differ depending on OS:

Windows:

• David - Male - English (US)
• Zira - Female - English (US)

OSX:

• Alex - Male - English (US)
• Alice - Female - Italiano (Italia)
• Alva - Female - Svenska (Sverige)
• Amelie - Female - Français (Canada)
• Anna - Female - Deutsch (Deutschland)
• Carmit - Female - עברית (ישראל)
• Damayanti - Female - Indonesia (Indonesia)
• Daniel - Male - English (United kingdom)
• Diego - Male - Español (Argentina)
• Ellen - Female - Nederlands (België)
• Fiona - Female - En-Scotland
• Fred - Male - English (United States)
• Ioana - Female - Română (România)
• Joana - Female - Português (Portugal)
• Jorge - Male - Español (España)
• Juan - Male - Español (México)
• Kanya - Female - ไทย (ไทย)
• Karen - Female - English (Australia)
• Kyoko - Female - 日本語 (日本)
• Laura - Female - Slovenčina (Slovensko)
• Lekha - Female - हिन्दी (भारत)
• Luca - Male - Italiano (Italia)
• Luciana - Female - Português (Brasil)
• Maged - Male - العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية)
• Mariska - Female - Magyar (Magyarország)
• Mei-jia - Female - Zh_tw
• Melina - Female - Ελληνικά (ελλάδα)
• Milena - Female - Русский (Pоссия)
• Moira - Female - English (Ireland)
• Monica - Female - Español (España)
• Nora - Female - Norsk Bokmål (Norge)
• Paulina - Female - Español (México)
• Rishi - Male - English (India)
• Samantha - Female - English (United States)
• Sara - Female - Dansk (Danmark)
• Satu - Female - Suomi (Suomi)
• Sin-ji - Female - Zh_hk
• Tessa - Female - English (South Africa)
• Thomas - Male - Français (France)
• Ting-ting - Female - Zh_cn
• Veena - Female - English (India)
• Victoria - Female - English (United States)
• Xander - Male - Nederlands (Nederland)
• Yelda - Female - Türkçe (Türkiye)
• Yuna - Female - 한국어 (대한민국)
• Yuri - Male - Русский (Pоссия)
• Zosia - Female - Polski (Polska)
• Zuzana - Female - Čeština (česko)

Linux:

• Afrikaans - Male
• Aragonese - Male
• Bulgarian - Male
• Bosnian - Male
• Catalan - Male
• Czech - Male
• Welsh - Male
• Danish - Male
• German - Male
• Greek - Male
• Default - Male
• English - Male
• En-scottish - Male
• English-north - Male
• English_rp - Male
• English_wmids - Male
• English-us - Male
• En-westindies - Male
• Esperanto - Male
• Spanish - Male
• Spanish-latin-am - Male
• Estonian - Male
• Persian - Male
• Persian-pinglish - Male
• Finnish - Male
• French-belgium - Male
• French - Male
• Irish-gaeilge - Male
• Greek-ancient - Male
• Hindi - Male
• Croatian - Male
• Hungarian - Male
• Armenian - Male
• Armenian-west - Male
• Indonesian - Male
• Icelandic - Male
• Italian - Male
• Lojban - Male
• Georgian - Male
• Kannada - Male
• Kurdish - Male
• Latin - Male
• Lingua_franca_nova - Male
• Lithuanian - Male
• Latvian - Male
• Macedonian - Male
• Malayalam - Male
• Malay - Male
• Nepali - Male
• Dutch - Male
• Norwegian - Male
• Punjabi - Male
• Polish - Male
• Brazil - Male
• Portugal - Male
• Romanian - Male
• Russian - Male
• Slovak - Male
• Albanian - Male
• Serbian - Male
• Swedish - Male
• Swahili-test - Male
• Tamil - Male
• Turkish - Male
• Vietnam - Male
• Vietnam_hue - Male
• Vietnam_sgn - Male
• Mandarin - Male
• Cantonese - Male

blender-text-to-speech's Issues

Addon doesn't seem add any menu option (What Blender version is used? and how to fix?)

My screen, blender 2.92.0

Not seeing the menu option after plugin is installed.

Sometimes text_to_speech.speech_to_strip does not work ( maybe when text is too long and Japanese )

method to reproduce:

1. input "いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよた"(16 letters, 32 bytes) in text_to_speech.string_field, then push "Text to Speech".
2. push "Convert Selected to Text Strip" with selecting the new sound strip (named "いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよたyyyyMMddhhmms" lacking the last letter of "hhmmss" ), yet none of text strip spawns.
3. taking same process with another input, "いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよ", then spawns the strip is named "いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよyyyyMMddhhmmss"( including the information about date and time perfectly like "yyyyMMddhhmmss" )

my hypothesis:
When a sound strip is made ( "sound_strip_from_text()" works ), the function makes the name of the strip by cutting the text off and making it shorter to fit in the name of a strip.
In this situation, the function seems not to use the byte length but the number of letters. If it cause the difference between strip name and filename, the problem would happen on remove_deleted_strips()@operators.py.

I'm sorry to say this, but I haven't been still able to give you more detailed information and any proposal for fix.

Thank you.

this is a bug?

just one frame per text

Add-on not installed

Hi, I'm trying to install the add-on via preferences, but I can't,

• I'm in administrator mode,
• I'm using Blender 3.1.2, in Windows 10

Every time I get the following message: "Modules Installed () from '....zip' into '...'"

Am I doing something wrong?