newfies-dialer / python-acapela

Text-To-Speech with Acapela

python-acapela

Author:	Arezqui Belaid
Description:	Python wrapper for text-to-speech synthesis with Acapela
Company:	Developed by Star2Billing http://www.star2billing.com

Python Acapela Wrapper

python-acapela is a library to produce a text-to-speech file using Acapela web services.

Quickstart

import acapela

ACCOUNT_LOGIN = 'EVAL_XXXX'
APPLICATION_LOGIN = 'EVAL_XXXXXXX'
APPLICATION_PASSWORD = 'XXXXXXXX'
SERVICE_URL = 'http://vaas.acapela-group.com/Services/Synthesizer'

tts_acapela = acapela.Acapela(ACCOUNT_LOGIN, APPLICATION_LOGIN, APPLICATION_PASSWORD, SERVICE_URL, '22k', '/tmp/')
tts_acapela.prepare(text=u"Hola! Buenos días", lang='ES', gender='W', intonation='NORMAL')
output_filename = tts_acapela.run()

print "Recorded TTS to %s" % output_filename

Features

• Produce text to speech in different languages, see list of languages supported : http://www.acapela-vaas.com/ReleasedDocumentation/voices_list.php
• Support different type of audio quality 22Hz, 8Hz
• Provide voices of different gender and intonation

Installation

Install, upgrade and uninstall python-acapela.py with these commands:

$ sudo pip install python-acapela
$ sudo pip install --upgrade python-acapela
$ sudo pip uninstall python-acapela

Or if you don't have pip:

$ sudo easy_install python-acapela

Example usage and output

$ Usage: python-acapela -acclogin <accountlogin> -applogin <applicationlogin> -p <password> -t <text> [-q <quality>] [-d <directory>] [-url <service_url>] [-h]

$ Output : Recorded TTS to /tmp/ACAPELA-8895934760117809679-ES.mp3

Feedback

Your feedback is more than welcome. Write email to [email protected] or post bugs and feature requests on github:

http://github.com/areski/python-acapela/issues

Extra information

Newfies-Dialer, an open source Auto Dialer software, uses this module to synthetize audio files being play to the end-user. Further information about Newfies-Dialer can be found at http://www.newfies-dialer.org

This module is built and supported by Star2Billing : http://www.star2billing.com

Similar library in Ruby : https://github.com/mheld/acapela-ruby

Source download

The source code is currently available on github. Fork away!

http://github.com/areski/python-acapela

python-acapela's Issues

Problem during the downloading of the generated mp3 file

I have problems with the generated mp3 file. It is too short and it is not a valid mp3 file.
Are you experiencing the same issue?
Best regards!

module' object has no attribute 'Acapela'

When I try and run example.py I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "acapela.py", line 79, in
test_acapela()
File "acapela.py", line 42, in test_acapela
tts_acapela = acapela.Acapela(ACCOUNT_LOGIN, APPLICATION_LOGIN, APPLICATION_PASSWORD, SERVICE_URL, QUALITY, DIRECTORY)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Acapela'

Acapela attach strange information before the given text

Hi! I used the python script for a while without a problem, but today the generated audio has some strange number before the given text. The generated audio says something like VCT=100s PD=160 and then it says the correct given text.
Can you confirm that?