HanTTS

Chinese Text-to-Speech(TTS)

汉字 => [“han4”, “zi4”] => .wav audio

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Libraries Used

For turning Chinese characters into pinyin

• pypinyin
• jieba

For processing .wav files

• pydub
• pyAudio

Web backend

• Express

A list of all Chinese characters is obtained from 倉頡平台2012, a Chinese input software.

Build and Run

git clone https://github.com/junzew/HanTTS.git
cd HanTTS
pip install --user -r requires.txt

Download syllables.zip from SourceForge, and decompress under the directory HanTTS.

• Either run locally: python main.py
• Or through web interface:
  cd into the server folder

  npm install
  node app.js
  

  Navigate to localhost:3000 in a browser

Use your own voice

• Record five tones of each pinyin listed in mapping.json
• Group them by the first letter (a,b,c,d, etc.), and save under folder ./recording as {letter}.wav
• Then run python process.py {letter}for each letter to split recordings into individual pinyin
• Move valid .wav files from ./pre to the folder ./syllables

Deploy to Heroku

heroku create
heroku git:remote -a <app-name>
heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs#v170 -a <app-name>
heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 heroku-community/apt
heroku buildpacks:add --index 3 heroku/python

$heroku buildpacks
=== hantts Buildpack URLs
1. heroku-community/apt
2. https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs#v170
3. heroku/python

heroku apps:rename <newname>
heroku ps:scale web=1
git push heroku master

Issues Encountered during Deployment:

• Failed to bind to port
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15693192/heroku-node-js-error-web-process-failed-to-bind-to-port-within-60-seconds-of
  app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, function () {...}
• node Procfile
• apt Aptfile
• python requirements.txt

Based on the text-to-speech-sample project by @alexram1313