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romanian tts with polly std/carmen voice.
yo3gnd Dec 19, 2025
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romanian tts with polly std/carmen voice.
yo3gnd Dec 19, 2025
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion README.md
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Expand Up @@ -38,10 +38,12 @@ you may define AWS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as environmental variables.
perl render.pl -i file [-o directory] [-c directory] [-s speeds] [-p pitch] [-pr]
[-m max processes] [-z 1] [-rr 1] [--test] [-l word limit]
[--norepeat] [--nospoken] [--nocourtesytone] [-e NEURAL | STANDARD]
[--sm] [--ss] [--sv] [-x] [--lang ENGLISH | SWEDISH]
[--sm] [--ss] [--sv] [-x] [--lang ENGLISH | SWEDISH | ROMANIAN]

Uses AWS Polly and requires valid credentials in the aws.properties file.<br/><br/>

For `-l ROMANIAN`, remember to use `-e STANDARD`. Neural languages do not sound as rough as standard ones.

#### OPTIONS:

##### Required:
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11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions render.pl
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use Getopt::Long;
use Digest::SHA qw(sha256_hex sha256_base64);
use POSIX;
use Encode qw(encode_utf8);

my @speeds;
sub print_usage;
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$lower_lang_chars_regex = "a-züäöß";
$upper_lang_chars_regex = "A-ZÜÄÖß";
}
if($lang eq "ROMANIAN") {
$lower_lang_chars_regex = "a-zâăîșț";
$upper_lang_chars_regex = "A-ZÂĂÎȘȚ";
}

binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");

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$cached_filename = "${lang}-standard-";
}

$cached_filename .= $text_to_speech_engine . "-" . sha256_hex($sentence) . ".mp3";
use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
$cached_filename .= $text_to_speech_engine . "-" . sha256_hex(encode_utf8($sentence)) . ".mp3";
$cached_filename = $cache_directory . $cached_filename;

return $cached_filename;
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sub get_cached_filename {
my ($ebookCmdBase, $morse_text) = @_;

my $cached_file_hash = sha256_base64($ebookCmdBase . $morse_text);
use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
my $cached_file_hash = sha256_base64(encode_utf8($ebookCmdBase . $morse_text));
$cached_file_hash =~ s/\///g;
my $cached_file = $cached_file_hash . ".mp3";

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions text2speech.py
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Expand Up @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ def render(cache_filename, voice_id, text_type, text):
if language == "GERMAN":
voice_id = "Vicki"

if language == "ROMANIAN":
voice_id = "Carmen"

print("Using Voice: " + voice_id)
cache_filename = cache_directory + language + "-standard-" + base_filename
render(cache_filename, voice_id=voice_id, text_type=None, text=sentence)
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