Fun with TTS

Recently, I discovered the Streamelements API used for text-to-speech is available for anyone to use. The most popular voice, Brian, tends to be (ab)used for fun. I'm not a huge fan of the TTS voice that comes with GNOME and other solutions would take a bit of effort to setup, so I decided to make a quick Fish script:

function tts
    set -l file (mktemp)
    curl -G 'https://api.streamelements.com/kappa/v2/speech' \
        --data-urlencode "voice=Brian" \
        --data-urlencode "text=$argv[1]" \
        --output "$file"
    mpv "$file"
    rm "$file"
end

I use mpv here for simplicity, replace with your favorite command line audio file player. I was expecting it to be slow, but it is actually quite fast! The obvious downside is that this requires Internet access, but that's a topic for another day.

Fun with TTS was published on 2022-08-23

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