HanTTS

Chinese Text-to-Speech(TTS)

汉字 => ["han4", "zi4"] => .wav audio

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Libraries Used

For turning Chinese characters into pinyin

• pypinyin
• jieba

For processing .wav files

• pydub
• pyAudio

Web backend

• Express

A list of all Chinese characters is obtained from 倉頡平台2012, a Chinese input software.

Build and Run

git clone https://github.com/junzew/HanTTS.git
cd HanTTS
pip install --user -r requires.txt

Download syllables.zip from SourceForge, and decompress under the directory HanTTS.

• Either run locally: python main.py
• Or through web interface: cd into the server folder

   npm install
   node app.js
  

  Navigate to localhost:3000 in a browser

Use your own voice

• Record five tones of each pinyin listed in mapping.json
• Group them by the first letter (a,b,c,d, etc.), and save under folder ./recording as {letter}.wav
• Then run python process.py {letter}for each letter to split recordings into individual pinyin
• Move valid .wav files from ./pre to the folder ./syllables

Based on the text-to-speech-sample project by @alexram1313