A simple function for demoing how spoken text will sound.

ari_talk(
  paragraphs,
  output = tempfile(fileext = ".wav"),
  voice = text2speech::tts_default_voice(service = service),
  service = "amazon"
)

Arguments

paragraphs

A vector strings that will be spoken by Amazon Polly.

output

A path to the audio file which will be created.

voice

The voice you want to use. See tts_voices for more information about what voices are available.

service

speech synthesis service to use, passed to tts Either "amazon" or "google".

Value

A Wave output object, with the attribute outfile of the output file name.