Merge pull request #235 from ProGEEK/google-tts

Added Basic Base Google TTS Support.
hollie · Aug 31, 2013 · 951f5ee · 951f5ee
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diff --git a/bin/mh.ini b/bin/mh.ini
@@ -1085,9 +1085,9 @@ ipaddress_xpl_broadcast =
 @    See the mh/docs/install.html on how to install various speech engines.
 
 
-@ voice_text can be MS, MSV4, MSV5, festival, flite, theta or swift (for the  Cepstral engine on Linux),
-@ viavoice, vv_tts (for IBM's viavoice Outloud), NaturalVoice, NaturalVoiceWine, or
-@ program xyz (for a stand alone xyz program),
+@ voice_text can be MS, MSV4, MSV5, festival, flite, google (for the Google TTS API, requires ffmpeg),
+@ theta or swift (for the  Cepstral engine on Linux), viavoice, vv_tts (for IBM's viavoice Outloud),
+@ NaturalVoice, NaturalVoiceWine, or program xyz (for a stand alone xyz program),
 @ Set to blank to disable.
 @ Use  voice_text = MS on windows for all Microsoft SAPI compatible TTS engines, including AT&T NaturalVoice.
 @ Other parms specify paths to various TTS engines on unix systems.

diff --git a/lib/Voice_Text.pm b/lib/Voice_Text.pm
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ package Voice_Text;
 # $Revision$
 
 use strict;
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+use LWP::ConnCache;
 
 use vars '$VTxt_version';
 my (@VTxt, $VTxt_stream1, $VTxt_stream2, %VTxt_cards, $VTxt_festival, $VTxt_mac);
@@ -429,6 +431,42 @@ sub speak_text {
 		# 		    exit; # nothing left for the child to do
 	    }
         }
+    }elsif ($speak_engine =~ /google/) {
+        # Speak to tile using the Google TTS Engine
+
+        # Define a basic LWP agent for retrieving the Google MP3
+        my $ua;
+        $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+        $ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101");
+        $ua->env_proxy;
+        $ua->conn_cache(LWP::ConnCache->new());
+        $ua->timeout(10);
+
+        my $random = int rand 1000; # Use random file name so we can talk 2+ at once.
+
+        # If being forced to file, use the filename being forced, otherwise, use a random temp file.
+        my $out_file = ($parms{to_file}) ? $parms{to_file} : "$main::config_parms{data_dir}/mh_temp.google-$random.wav";
+
+        # The temp file to store google's MP3 as
+        my $google_file = "$main::config_parms{data_dir}/mh_temp.google-$random.mp3";
+
+        # Make the request, store the result in the google temp file
+        my $ua_request = HTTP::Request->new('GET' => "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=".qq[ $parms{text} ]);
+        my $ua_response = $ua->request($ua_request, $google_file);
+
+        # Log the failure
+        if (!$ua_response->is_success) {
+            print "Failed to contact the Google TTS API.\n";
+            return;
+        }
+
+        # Convert the returned mp3 file to a wav, and clean up the temp file
+        system("ffmpeg", "-loglevel", "panic", "-i", "$google_file", "$out_file");
+        unlink($google_file);
+
+        # Play the wav file, clean up only if we are not being forced to file
+        system($main::config_parms{sound_program}, $out_file) unless $parms{to_file};
+        unlink($out_file) unless $parms{to_file};
     }
     elsif ($speak_pgm) {
         my $fork = 1 unless $parms{to_file} and !$parms{async}; # Must wait for to_file requests, so http requests work