espeak4ros

Yet another wrapping of the eSpeak text to speech for ROS

This one is slightly different of the espeak_ros package, which is rather sophisticated with dynamic reconfiguration to encapsulate fine tuned eSpeak parameters for various languages and dialects (except French ;-) ).

System dependencies

• Make sure the necessary system dependencies are installed:

sudo apt-get install espeak espeak-data libespeak-dev

• Depending of your preferences, MBROLA voices could be of a nice choice:

sudo apt-get install mbrola mbrola-en1 mbrola-fr1

Tests

• Do the typical ROS & catkin stuff according to your favorite cookbook, eg.:

$ mkdip -p ~/catkin_ws/src  
$ cd ~/catkin_ws  
$ catkin_make  
$ git clone  https://git.code.sf.net/p/espeak4ros/code  src/espeak4ros  
$ . devel/setup.bash  
$ catkin_make  
$ . devel/setup.bash  
$ roscore &  

• Start the espeak4ros node:

$ rosrun espeak4ros espeak4ros_node &

• Test it with a simple call to it service:

$ rosservice call /espeak4ros/say "input: Bonjour"