AzureTTS

AzureTTS is a Ruby gem that provides an interface to Microsoft Azure's Text-to-Speech service. It allows you to convert text to speech and save it as an audio file or integrate it with Rails' Active Storage.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'azure_tts'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install azure_tts

Usage

Use the AzureTTS::Client to generate a speech file:

# config/initializers/azure_tts.rb
AzureTTS.configure do |config|
  config.region = "your_azure_region"
  config.api_key = "your_azure_api_key"
end

client = AzureTTS::Client.new
client.speak_file("Hello, world!", "output.wav", {gender: :female, name: 'en-US-JennyNeural', language: 'en-US'})

Setup Active Storage in the Model

class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
  has_one_attached :audio_file
end

my_model = MyModel.new
client.speak_to_active_storage("Hello, world!", my_model.audio_file, {gender: :female, name: 'en-US-JennyNeural', language: 'en-US'})
my_model.save

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/graysonchen/azure_tts.

Reference

• https://github.com/csmpfo/Ruby-Lib-for-Microsoft-Azure-Text-2-Speech/tree/master
• https://github.com/adhearsion/ruby_speech
• https://github.com/cristianbica/azure-tts

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.