I the last Blog I introduced you to my new Simple TTS Arduino Library which is available on Github. I used the Text-to-Speech (TTS) functionality of Google Translate to generate the mp3 files, which was quite tedious to do manually. Then I executed xxd to generate a .h file from Read more…
Last year I was digging into Arduino Based TTS Solutions and came to the conclusion that the available engines will not provide any quality audio and therefore recommended to consider an approach which is based on recorded audio samples. Today I took the opportunity to create the new arduino-simple-tts project Read more…
So far I was always using the Arduino based SD API to access files on a SD drive. But there are plenty of existing libraries which expect to use stdio.h operations to work with files. So I was digging into the topic and to my surprise this is possible: You Read more…
Quite some time ago I have identified Maximilian as interesting tool which can be used to implement synthezisers. Maximilian is a cross-platform and multi-target audio synthesis and signal processing library. So I was wondering if it is possible to use it on Arduino based Microcontrollers. In the meantime the adapted Read more…
The last couple of days I have spent to add SDIF audio output support to my Arduino AudioTools library and I would like to thank joba-1 for testing the solution. Together with my ESP32-A2DP Bluetooth library we can build now a Bluetooth receiver that outputs the audio signals as SPDIF Read more…
For quite some time I was wondering why my arduino-fdk-aac library was using so much memory for the encoding of AAC files. Now that I have an AudioKit working with the debugger it was easier to analyze the situation and – oh boy – I found quite some errors. So Read more…
I was planning to use the PlatformIO Debugger for quite some time: Here is a good overview of how to get started. I can also recommend Low-cost ESP32 In-circuit Debugging from Manuel BL. I wanted to use it both with OS/X and Linux: Most tutorials however describe Windows and therefore Read more…
After using the AI Thinker AudioKit I wanted to make sure that my libraries also work with the ESP32 LyraT Board from Espressif. There were basically just 2 stumbling blocks: Deploying Code: From the AudioKit I was used that I can plug in the UART cable and upload the code Read more…
I decided to use my SAM TTS Library with the AI Thinker Audio Kit. Unfortunately I found quite some bugs in my library that I needed to correct first, but now it is working as expected. Here is the Arduino Sketch #include “sam_arduino.h” #include “AudioTools.h” #include “AudioLibs/AudioKit.h” AudioKitStream kit; SAM Read more…
My Arduino MIDI Library is using Arduino Streams as a basic design feature and therefore it supports Bluetooth, TCP/IP and UDP. I am usually programming on an old Macbook, so I was wondering if I can extend my library to support Apple MIDI as well. After some research I found Read more…