mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/espeak_tts.py

# Copyright 2016 Mycroft AI, Inc.
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import subprocess

from mycroft.tts import TTS, TTSValidator

__author__ = 'seanfitz', 'jdorleans'


class ESpeak(TTS):
    def __init__(self, lang, voice):
        super(ESpeak, self).__init__(lang, voice, ESpeakValidator(self))

    def execute(self, sentence):
        self.begin_audio()
        subprocess.call(
            ['espeak', '-v', self.lang + '+' + self.voice, sentence])
        self.end_audio()


class ESpeakValidator(TTSValidator):
    def __init__(self, tts):
        super(ESpeakValidator, self).__init__(tts)

    def validate_lang(self):
        # TODO
        pass

    def validate_connection(self):
        try:
            subprocess.call(['espeak', '--version'])
        except:
            raise Exception(
                'ESpeak is not installed. Run: sudo apt-get install espeak')

    def get_tts_class(self):
        return ESpeak