Tips

Can I use this to batch-process a file of strings?

Sure. You may want to do this, for example, to create audio files for some phrases for a bilingual speaker. There are other tools to do this, but this is possible. You can just copy your text and run the main application - then look at the cache directory for the audio file. But if you want to automate this, check out this Powershell script

# Define the path to the text file and executable
$textFilePath = "C:\path\to\textfile.txt"
$executablePath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ace Centre\TranslateAndTTS\translatepb.exe"
$outputFolder = "C:\path\to\output\folder"

# Check if text file exists
if (Test-Path $textFilePath) {
    # Read each line of the text file
    $lines = Get-Content $textFilePath

    # Iterate through each line
    foreach ($line in $lines) {
        # Copy the line to the clipboard
        $line | Set-Clipboard

        # Run the executable
        Start-Process $executablePath

        # Wait for the executable to complete and the file to be created (adjust time as needed)
        Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

        # Identify the latest created file in the output folder (assuming it's sorted by date)
        $latestFile = Get-ChildItem $outputFolder | Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1

        # Generate a unique truncated name based on the line from textFilePath
        $truncatedName = $line.Substring(0, [Math]::Min(10, $line.Length)) # Taking first 10 characters, adjust as needed

        # Rename the file
        Rename-Item -Path "$outputFolder\$($latestFile.Name)" -NewName "$truncatedName.txt" # Adjust extension if needed
    }
} else {
    Write-Host "Text file not found at $textFilePath"
}

Using RHVoice for minority languages offline

RHVoice is a great project creating TTS Systems for minority languages. Its also great because they work offline. This isnt so much of a tip but a reminder that the project exists. To install SAPI voices for this system see the prebuilt binaries here. RHVoice supports:

• American and Scottish English

• Brazilian Portuguese

• Esperanto

• Georgian

• Ukrainian

• Kyrgyz

• Tatar

• Macedonian

• Albanian

• Polish