Tools to get DECtalk working for incorporation into a Twitch bot.
- Figure out how to build
say.con a modern machine - Write instructions on how to build
- Add a compiled
say.exeto the Releases section - Make the sound output configurable
- Test in the wild with Firebot
- Add instructions for Firebot
- Change prerelease to release
- http://theflameofhope.co/DECTALK.html
- https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
- https://github.com/dectalk/list
- https://github.com/calzoneman/aeiou
There are two things this repo is here for:
- Building
say.exeusing the DECTalk libraries - Providing releases of
say.exe
Prerequisites:
- Visual Studio (Community edition should be fine)
- Likely will need to install the "Desktop development with C++" workload from the Visual Studio Installer
- Download DECTalk 4.61 via DECtalkMain.zip
- Unzip DECtalkMain.zip
- Install DECtalkMain
- Run
DECtalkMain\Setup.exe
- Run
- Copy
'C:\Program Files (x86)\DECtalk\'to some location in your user directory- The next step copies files from this folder, but the Program Files directory requires Administrator privileges
- Run
.\setup.bat <copied-DECtalk-path>to copy relevant build files to this directory, e.g.
.\setup.bat "../DECtalk"
- Open this folder in Visual Studio
- In Visual Studio, goto either:
- Tools > Command Line > Developer Command Line
- Tools > Command Line > Developer Powershell
- Use
nmaketo buildsay.exe:
nmake.exe /f "say.mak" CFG="say - Win32 Release"
By the end of all of this, your folder should look like the following:
> cmd /c tree /f
Folder PATH listing
Volume serial number is BEC3-0420
C:.
│ .gitignore
│ cleanup.bat
│ LICENSE
│ README.md
│ say.c
│ say.mak
│ setup.bat
│
├───.vs
│ │ ProjectSettings.json
│ │ slnx.sqlite
│ │ VSWorkspaceState.json
│ │
│ └───perfect-paul
│ ├───FileContentIndex
│ │ 04b7fb90-8d78-4411-97f5-cc5745f40b04.vsidx
│ │ 474592b4-cc43-47b0-970a-8795d46614e6.vsidx
│ │ 4fd6c04e-eb8f-4307-819f-b710a30b207d.vsidx
│ │ 9bab4b15-8509-4c91-9c4c-f0457d672a26.vsidx
│ │
│ └───v17
│ Browse.VC.db
│ Browse.VC.db-shm
│ Browse.VC.db-wal
│
├───build
│ └───us
│ └───release
│ │ say.exe
│ │
│ └───link
│ say.obj
│ vc140.idb
│
└───dapi
├───build
│ └───dectalk
│ ├───fr
│ │ └───release
│ │ dectalk.lib
│ │
│ ├───gr
│ │ └───release
│ │ dectalk.lib
│ │
│ ├───la
│ │ └───release
│ │ dectalk.lib
│ │
│ ├───sp
│ │ └───release
│ │ dectalk.lib
│ │
│ ├───uk
│ │ └───release
│ │ dectalk.lib
│ │
│ └───us
│ └───release
│ dectalk.lib
│
└───src
└───api
ttsapi.h
- Cleanup:
.\cleanup.bat
SAY [options] [text]
Help Options:
-h or -? = Help. Outputs this file to the console. This
option cancels any others on the command line.
-v = Version. Outputs version to the console. This
option cancels any others on the command line.
Audio Options:
-a = List devices and their device number. This
option cancels any others on the command line.
-a <device-num> = Use the specified device number for wave output
Note: It performs no error checking on arg input
or device number. Choose wisely.
Output Options:
-w outFile = Convert text into specified wave file instead of
speaking to the sound device.
-l[t] outFile = Turn on text logging, which logs all input text
to a file. This text includes any pre and post
commands as well as commands sent to DECtalk by
the SAY program itself.
Since this is the default logging mode, the 't'
immediately following the '-l' is optional.
-ls outFile = Turn on syllable logging, which logs each
syllable to a file.
-lp outFile = Turn on phoneme logging, which converts the
input text to phonemes. This is useful if you
want to get DECtalk to sing. You convert the
text to phonemes and then insert the tone
commands into the phoneme file.
If no output options are specified, SAY sends its output to the
installed sound device, ususally a sound card. Only one output
option can be specified; if you specify more than one, the last one
on the command line is used.
Input Options:
-pre preText = Text to be passed to DECtalk before the normal input.
This is useful for passing initializing commands to
DECtalk that would normally not be part of the input.
If the prefix text has spaces, it must be enclosed in
quotes. An example would be "[:phoneme on]" or
"[:nb :ra200]".
The prefix text is "forced" out before the input text
is read.
-post postText = Text to be passed to DECtalk after the normal input.
This is useful for passing terminating commands to
DECtalk that would normally not be part of the input.
If the postfix text has spaces, it must be enclosed
in quotes. An example would be "[:phoneme off]" or
"The End".
The "normal" input is "forced" out before the postfix
text is read.
text = Text appearing on command line is spoken. The text
to be spoken can either come from the standard
input or from the command line.
Anything on the command line that is not an option
will be interpreted as text, as will anything following
it on the command line. In other words, text to
be spoken must appear on the command line after
all options.
If the *first* word in the text has a dash (-) or
slash (/) as its first character, you must precede
it with another dash or slash. For example, to tell
DECtalk to say the number -123, you would type the
command
SAY --123
This is necessary to avoid having SAY interpret the
number as a command line option.
If you embed DECtalk commands into your text, you must
enclose them in quotes if they contain spaces.
This is because SAY treats each space-delimited
command-line argument as a separate "word",
while DECtalk commands must be processed as
single "words" by the SAY program.
If no text is specified, SAY will take its input from the standard input.
For example, you could have SAY speak a directory listing in Betty's
voice by typing
DIR | SAY -pre "[:nb]"
or you could just type the command
SAY
and then enter text at the console. In this case, SAY speaks each
line after you press RETURN, and exits after you press CTRL-Z. If
you want SAY to take its input from a file, use file redirection as
in the following example, which reads the file FOO.TXT in Harry's
voice.
SAY -pre "[:nh]" < FOO.TXT
Dictionary Options:
-d userDict = Loads the specified user dictionary before
speaking. This dictionary is loaded in place of
any default user dictionary determined by DECtalk.