text2opus

text2opus

Convert text to opus audio file with Google text-to-speech API

Install

$ go install github.com/tetsu-koba/text2opus@latest

It is expected to be installed in $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin. It has been tested on Linux x86_64 and Mac AArch64 platforms.

Usage

Ensure the $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable is set correctly.

$ cat $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
{
    some json contents ...
}    

$ text2opus
2023/02/25 20:44:36 Usage:
2023/02/25 20:44:36   text2opus input_text_file output_opus_file [voice_name]
2023/02/25 20:44:36   text2opus -l [languageCode (ex. 'en-US')]

To convert a text file into opus audio file, simpley run:

$ text2opus hello.txt hello.opus

You can specify a voice name as the 3rd paramater.

$ text2opus hello.txt hello_sa.opus en-US-Standard-A

To see the list of available voices, use the -l option.

$ text2opus -l en-US |head
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-A"  ssml_gender:MALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-B"  ssml_gender:MALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-C"  ssml_gender:FEMALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-D"  ssml_gender:MALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-E"  ssml_gender:FEMALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-F"  ssml_gender:FEMALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-G"  ssml_gender:FEMALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-H"  ssml_gender:FEMALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-I"  ssml_gender:MALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000
language_codes:"en-US"  name:"en-US-Standard-J"  ssml_gender:MALE  natural_sample_rate_hertz:24000

To view the full list of voices, just specify -l.

$ text2opus -l |wc -l
407

Update

To update text2opus, remove the executable file and then run go install again.

$ rm $(which text2opus)
$ go install github.com/tetsu-koba/text2opus@latest