Minimal GUI for accessing the Watson Text to Speech service.

Description

Minimal graphical application for accessing the Watson Text to Speech service.

Requirements

• Python 3 plus all dependencies listed in requirements.txt.
• An IBM account with a Watson Text to Speech service instance.

Usage

1. Set your Watson service url and api key in the settings file (e.g. ~/.config/ucw/ttsui.ini).
2. Start the application with the python 3 interpreter ($ python3 ttsui.py).
3. Select language and voice.
4. Type some text to synthesize.
5. Press Synthesize to synthesize the text to speech, wait for Play to become ready.
6. Press Play to play the synthesized speech.

Speech Data

All synthesized speech is stored in the persistent application directory (e.g. ~/.local/share/ucw/ttsui/speech).

License

This work is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3.0 or later.

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later