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Microsoft Cognitive Speech - Text To Speech

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Hello y'all, I've created a C# project and I'm already able to do basically the same as the Bing Speech Recognition plugin does, but I also need to make my EZ-B (JD) "speaks" in another language. I've installed a Microsoft voice, but that's a pretty bad one, and the Azure platform offers two very nice voices to be used.

Right now I'm stuck with how I send the voice received from Azure to the EZ-B. Azure offers a variety of audio formats.

Has anyone tried this before? I've gone through some of the tutorials in the SDK but couldn't find one that does something like that.

Thanks! Gilvan


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#3  

Thanks @Mickey666Maus, that sounds great. But my question is on how to send the audio received to the EZ-B. I guess I'd have the same problem there.

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#4  

@Gilvan,

Check the UniversalBot code http://synthiam.com/Products/ARC

Browsing the code you have information needed to send the sound data to EZB.

I've done that before, but i can't find the code.

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#5  

This is related to the Microsoft Cognitive API, maybe DJ is working or will be working to support that feature too.

@DJ ?

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#6  

@Mickey666Maus,

The api you mentioned

javascript example code:


var speech = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('Ola Brazil!');
speech.lang = 'pt-BR';
window.speechSynthesis.speak(speech);

is only supported within the browser (not all) although chrome handles pretty well.

some complains: http://ejb.github.io/2015/06/07/html5-speech-synthesis-api.html

even if you manage to launch the chrome engine (v8) like ARC does with blocky editor, you don't have a way to extract the voice sound.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21905583/record-html5-speechsynthesisutterance-generated-speech-to-file

Still a neat idea for the web...

#7  

@ptp the api works quiet well...and to me it is kind of a good work around to get different voices and languages going. But you are totally right, it is only working from within a browser, so I was kind of pointing to the wrong direction I guess!

This is a working example of a web based client! Which can also send data over to ARC, but cannot be called from within ARC!

http://www.downtown-tattoo.de/robotics/test123.html

#8  

To connect to the ARCs server you would just have to make an XMLHttpRequest(); to call eg a ControlCommand() in ARC...

But the limitation is clearly that ARC cannot send data to the browser I guess? At least I did not find a solution on this!:)

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