A tool that converts your tf2 chat messages to speech and plays them through vc.
WIP
The app relies on tf2 saving its console output to a file, as well as on VBCable to actually redirect audio to TF2.
The main components of the app (LogWatcher, MessageProcessor, AudioPlayer) are connected to each other in an event-driven way, utilizing channels as queues. This might change in the future.
The app also leverages plugin architecture to allow for custom TTS implementations. It can be done by implementing the Tts trait and passing it to the main App struct.
In no particular order
Alpha:
- rearrange the tts module, maybe move
tts_implto an example provider - add audio device to config
- potentially extract config into a config file
- turn this into a workspace, the main core lib, a terminal/gui app, etc.
- examples
- examples with custom tts providers as well
- modular error handling, so that this could be used in a gui/terminal app in the future, for example an app might want to catch critical errors and restart one of the components, or they might want to catch non-cricial errors and notify the user about them
- some docs
- create a simple gui
- finish the installation guide
- release on
crates.io
Future:
- improve the default
tts_impl, fetch concurrently rather than sequentially - better logging
- maybe figure out RVC for more voice choie freedom
- possibly improve error handling or sender/receiver stuff
- allow for more config options, such as providing a vc key other than the default V
- installer for this? not sure how one would achieve that considering that it involves external software and running commands in tf2
Issues and pull requests are welcome!
Inspired by TF2ChatToSpeech