S2C Hardware App

An open source AAC Text to Speech app which runs on Linux x86 and ARM systems (such as Raspberry Pi).

Author: Jacob Hansen

TTS Engine provided by Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Versions 0.1.1 and later require ffmpeg to be installed. To install it, use the following command with superuser privilege:

apt install ffmpeg

Installation:

First, install the required packages with pip, and run this on Python 3.7 or later AS ROOT/with sudo (This was built on Python 3.10): On Ubuntu:

wget https://github.com/jaycbhsn/S2C-Hardware-App/raw/main/requirements.txt
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

On Rasbian/Debian:

su
wget https://github.com/jaycbhsn/S2C-Hardware-App/raw/main/requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

You will also need Tkinter to run the GUI. To install it, run the following command:

sudo apt install python3-tk

Once the requirements are installed, hollow the instructions for the most up to date release or an older release if you prefer:

Current Release

If you choose to use a different TTS engine such as Espeak (not recommended), use the flag '--default_tts' and install espeak on your OS with:

apt-get install espeak -y