In ROS, there are some ROS packages that perform speech synthesis. Here, we will discuss one ROS package. This package uses Festival as the backend. The package name is sound_play. It has nodes and launch scripts that enable speech synthesis. We need to perform the following steps for speech synthesis:
We can install the
sound_playpackage using the following command:$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-sound-playAfter the installation of package, we have to create a sample ROS package to interact with the sound-play node. The following is the command to create a sample package in ROS with the sound-play package as dependency:
$ catkin_create_pkg sample_tts rospy roscpp sound_play std_msgsWe have to create a
sound_playpython client code for sending text to sound play server node. This client will send the text that needs to be converted to speech to thesound_playserver node. The client will send the text to convert to speech in a Topic...