How do you convert Text-to-Speech with PHP?

Answer 1

I have used festival with PHP for TTS program. Its very simple to use. If you are running linux, you can simply use "yum install festival" command to install festival package. This package is required for TTS program to work. Windows users can use cygwin to build festival package and place its .so file bin directory of PHP. Once you are done with installation of festival, you can move on to write PHP code that will convert your text to voice recording. Following is the code that creates recording from your text. I have written text into the variable that you can change:

<?php

//create a random number filename

$filename = 'test.txt';

$text = 'This text will be converted to audio recording';

$outputfile = basename($filename, ".txt");

$outputfile = $outputfile . '.wav';

if (!$handle = fopen($filename, "w"))

{

return false;

}

// Write $text to our opened file.

if (fwrite($handle, $text) === FALSE)

{

//couldn't write the file. Check permissions

return false;

}

fclose($handle);

//initialise and execute the festival C engine

$cmd = "text2wave $filename -o $outputfile";

//execute the command

exec($cmd);

unlink($filename);

echo "Recording is successful. \nRecording File: " . $outputfile;

//finally return the uptput file path and filename

return $outputfile;

?>

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Answer 2

You can convert text to speech in PHP using APIs such as Google Text-to-Speech or Amazon Polly. These APIs allow you to send a text string and receive an audio file in response, which you can then play back or save. You would need to integrate with the API of your choice and handle the process of generating and playing the speech output.