MBROLA is a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones. It takes a list of phonemes as input, together with prosodic information (duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear description of pitch), and produces speech samples on 16 bits (linear), at the sampling frequency of the diphone database. Today Read more…
In my introductory blog, I have described that it would be cool to remove the silence from the recorded samples. If we look at one of the recordings we can see that they start and end with some silence: I have created a SilenceRemovalConverter which does exactly this. The first Read more…
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…
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…
As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . Originally I was of the opinion that the program logic for reading of the GPIO pins and Read more…
As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . I thought it might be helpful to have a ‘Text to Speech’ example for the Audio Kit. Read more…
In my last couple of Blogs I was comparing the following Text To Speach (TTS) libraries which are available on Arduino: SAM Software Automatic Mouth TTS Text-to-Speech Library for Arduino Flite Festival lite I was hoping to find some TinyML based implementations, but so far without success: I put this Read more…
In my last Blogs I looked at SAM and Arduino/TTS. I was putting high hopes in CMU Flite: CMU Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time open source text to speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as Read more…
In my last Blog I looked at SAM. Now it is time to look at jscrane/TTS. TTS is a popular Text-to-Speech Library for Arduino which is supporting many different Microcontroller Architectures. I was extending the project, so that I could receive the data as stream: My extended project can be Read more…