voice_text

ROS Interface for HOYA VoiceText Speech Synthesis Engine

Installation

1. Install VoiceText SDK
2. Put license file
3. Build this package

cd /path/to/catkin_workspace
catkin build voice_text

Usage

1. Launch voice_text node

roslaunch voice_text voice_text.launch

TIPS If you want to launch VoiceText engine on remote machine, try creating launch file like below:

<launch>
  <machine name="remote" address="192.168.0.3" />
  <include file="$(find voice_text)/launch/voice_text.launch">
    <arg name="machine" value="remote" />
  </include>
</launch>

1. Say

Now speech synthesis is enabled.

rosrun sound_play say.py Hello! dummy 1.0 robotsound:=robotsound_jp

Robot says “Hello!”

Reference

Service

• text_to_speech (voice_text/TextToSpeech)

  Set text_path for path to text file that contains speech sentences. Set wave_path for path to generated wave file to be generated. If ok in response is set to true, wave file is generated successfully.

Parameters

• ~db_path (String, default: path found at build time (e.g., "/var/vt/sayaka/M16"))

  Path to VoiceText database directory.

• ~license_path (String, default: "")

  Path to VoiceText license file. If this parameter is empty, SDK tries to search data-common/verify directory relative to db_path.

Dynamic Parameters

• ~pitch (Int, default: 100)

  Pitch of voice by percentage. Speaks higher if this parameter is higher than 100.

• ~speed (Int, default: 100)

  Speed of speech by percentage.

• ~volume (Int, default: 100)

  Volumet of speech by percentage.

• ~pause (Int, default: 800)

  Pause duration between sentences by milliseconds.

Changelog for package voice_text

2.1.31 (2025-05-13)

• add LICENSE files
• Contributors: Kei Okada

2.1.30 (2025-05-10)

2.1.29 (2025-01-05)

2.1.28 (2023-07-24)

2.1.27 (2023-06-24)

2.1.26 (2023-06-14)

2.1.25 (2023-06-08)

• GA: enable melodic/aarch64 (#432)
• Restart voice text if verification fails (#300)
• Add verification check rosinfo (#298)
• Contributors: Aoi Nakane, Kei Okada, Naoto Tsukamoto, Naoya Yamaguchi, Shingo Kitagawa, Yoshiki Obinata

2.1.24 (2021-07-26)

2.1.23 (2021-07-21)

2.1.22 (2021-06-10)

• [voice_text] Fix README to follow supporting other speakers than SAYAKA (#220)
• Contributors: Shun Hasegawa

2.1.21 (2020-08-19)

2.1.20 (2020-08-07)

2.1.19 (2020-07-21)

2.1.18 (2020-07-20)

2.1.17 (2020-04-16)

2.1.16 (2020-04-16)

2.1.15 (2019-12-12)

2.1.14 (2019-11-21)

2.1.13 (2019-07-10)

• [voice_text] Call rosservice from python instead of bash (#166 )
  • rewrite text2wave with python
  • call rosservice from python instead of bash
• Contributors: Hideaki Ito

2.1.12 (2019-05-25)

• Fix install directory of text2wave to ./lib -> ./bin (#160) [text2wave]{.title-ref} Was wrongly installed to [CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION]{.title-ref} The launch file is assumed that it is installed under [rospack find voice_text]{.title-ref}/bin https://github.com/jsk-ros-pkg/jsk_3rdparty/blob/2.1.10/3rdparty/voice_text/launch/voice_text.launch#L29
• Contributors: Kei Okada

2.1.11 (2018-08-29)

2.1.10 (2018-04-25)

• add dependencies from voice_text to vt_dummy, solves #139 (#143)
• Contributors: Kei Okada

2.1.9 (2018-04-24)

• voice_text: add gencfg target to deps (#141)
• Contributors: Yuki Furta

2.1.8 (2018-04-17)

2.1.7 (2018-04-09)

• voice_text: support dynamic linking (#135)
  • install voice_text TARGETS - voice_text: CMakeLists.txt: remove debug code to force non-exists VT_LIB_PATH
  • voice_text: guide to install libs
  • install voice_text TARGETS
  • voice_text: CMakeLists.txt: remove debug code to force

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