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SVOX Pico TTS Text To Speech with W3M Web Browser

Text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. Works on linux also.

tutorial video: Link

install requirements

aur/svox-pico-bin   # archlinux
libttspico-utils    # ubuntu / debian
picospeaker         # https://gitlab.com/ky1e/picospeaker
toggle-process.zsh  # https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/zsh/toggle-process.zsh
rdrview             # https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

configuration

vim ~/.w3m/keymap

# say current word
keymap  \\\s    COMMAND "READ_SHELL 'picospeaker $W3M_CURRENT_WORD 2>/dev/null' ; BACK"

# read current page
keymap  \\\a    COMMAND "READ_SHELL 'rm /tmp/picospeaker.txt' ; BACK ; PRINT /tmp/picospeaker.txt ; SHELL 'picospeaker < /tmp/picospeaker.txt 2>/dev/null &'"

# strip junk from current page and read current page
keymap  \\\R    COMMAND "READ_SHELL 'rdrview -H $W3M_URL 2> /dev/null 1> /tmp/rdrview.html' ; BACK ; LOAD /tmp/rdrview.html ; READ_SHELL 'rm /tmp/picospeaker.txt' ; BACK ; PRINT /tmp/picospeaker.txt ; SHELL 'picospeaker < /tmp/picospeaker.txt 2>/dev/null &'"

# stop current text to speech process
keymap  \\\k    COMMAND "READ_SHELL 'killall play' ; BACK"

# toggle (pause/play) current text to speech process
keymap  \\\p    COMMAND "READ_SHELL 'toggle-process.zsh /usr/bin/play' ; BACK"

usage

press \a on a webpage for the pico tts program to read it aloud

references

contact

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