tts_google: Convert Text into Speech

In Rtts: Convert Text into Speech

Description

Convert text into speech (voice files in .mp3 format) using the API offered by Google Translate (https://translate.google.com). Only English is supported currently.

Usage

tts_google(content = "hello world", destfile = paste(getwd(),"r.mp3",sep="/"))

Arguments

content	The content to convert into speech. In string format.
destfile	where to save the voice file generated and the voice file name. Default path is the current working path.

Details

Convert text into speech (voice files in .mp3 format) using the API offered by Google Translate. No extra software or platform support is required to use this function.

Note

[1] This function can only help convert restricted-length text (roughly nchar(text)<=100); [2] Try to use only comma and period for separation.

Author(s)

Xiaodong Deng

References

https://translate.google.com

Examples

  tts_google("Hello.")

Example output

Loading required package: RCurl
Loading required package: bitops

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Warning message:
function 'tts_google' is deprecated due to API issue. Please use 'tts_ITIR' instead.
(Your request was done with 'tts_ITRI' this time) 

Rtts documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:26 p.m.