synthesize: Synthesize Speech

In aws.polly: Client for AWS Polly

Description

Pass text to the synthesis API and return an audio file

Usage

get_synthesis(
  text,
  voice,
  format = c("mp3", "ogg_vorbis", "pcm"),
  rate = c(22050, 16000, 8000),
  lexicon = NULL,
  ssml = FALSE,
  ...
)

synthesize(text, voice, ...)

Arguments

text	Either a plain text character string (maximum 1500 characters) or a character string containing SSML (ssml should be set to TRUE).
voice	A character string specifying the name of an AWS Polly voice. See list_voices.
format	A character string specifying an output file format.
rate	An integer value specifying the audio frequency in Hertz.
lexicon	Optionally, a character vector (max length 5) specifying the names of lexicons to apply during synthesis. See get_lexicon.
ssml	A logical indicating whether text contains SSML markup.
...	Additional arguments passed to pollyHTTP.

Value

get_synthesis returns a raw vector (i.e., the bytes representing the audio as the requested file format). synthesize is a convenience wrapper around that, which returns an object of class “Wave” (see Wave).

Examples

## Not run: 
hello <- synthesize("hello world!", voice = "Geraint")
if (interactive() & require("tuneR")) {
    try(play(hello))
}

## End(Not run)

aws.polly documentation built on April 14, 2020, 7:37 p.m.