gSpeak - Text To Speech in gmod

[jA_cOp]

New version that doesn't freeze.

[url=http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=65758][img]http://www.garrysmod.org/img/?t=dll&id=65758[/img][/url]

It doesn't say anything on startup either.

edit:

There is a better way to thread this than what I am doing, I'll probably do that later if I work more on this.

[ahref]

Not entirely sure if its just me but im not getting any output with this. is anyone else having the problem?

[Mr Affinity]

1.3 is working perfectly for me.

[Prefan]

Too bad this can't be streamed from the server to the clients, so much use could come out of this.

[mbainrot]

load 'n' her up now, i'll post with results :D

[Grocel]

There is no download link. :(

[jA_cOp]

Put up a working download that isn't from garrysmod.org.

What dumb garrysmod.org moderator would seriously keep removing this?

[Nerdboy]

Are you putting them in zip files?

[jA_cOp]

Yes, they've all been in zip files.

[U][highlight]VERSION 1.4[/highlight][/U]
[url]http://upl.luahelp.com/uploads/z9PsXcxb/gSpeak%201.4.zip[/url]

No new features, just fixed some issues before people would start noticing them. It now only uses a max of one thread for speaking, instead of one thread per gspeak.Say call (which remains until the message has been spoken).

This means that you could now do:
[lua]
for counter = 1, 9001 do
gspeak.Say(tostring(counter))
end
[/lua]
Without creating 9001 threads. It now queues messages instead and keeps one thread alive when the queue is not empty.

[Grocel]

When you use this module and leave the game then comes to a crash. :(

Can you fix this please? :)

[jA_cOp]

Leave the game? Disconnecting from a server works fine for me, and so does exiting the game itself.

Describe your problem some more, please.

[Grocel]

When the voice is speaking and you disconnect from server or end the game, then the game crash.

[Bobsymalone]

[QUOTE=Grocel;14478628]When you use this module and leave the game then comes to a crash. :(

Can you fix this please? :)[/QUOTE]

I find that it just crashes then and there.

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=Grocel;14480263]When the voice is speaking and you disconnect from server or end the game, then the game crash.[/QUOTE]

Good point.

Let me fix that.

[QUOTE=Bobsymalone;14480474]I find that it just crashes then and there.[/QUOTE]

Hm?

fixed:

] lua_run_cl require "speak"
] lua_run_cl gspeak.Say(string.rep("Hello! ", 10))
Dropped jA_cOp from server (Disconnect by user.)

No crash. Stops the thread and releases any resources it might have left unprocessed.
[url]http://upl.luahelp.com/uploads/glxqA4lk/gSpeak%201.5.zip[/url]

[shaftm]

Possible to get voice changing in this?

Also great job on it so far! I loved the text to speech in UT and have been dying for it in other games.

[jonney934]

I just made a simple test and renamed Sandbox to Tetris and made it say "Lets play some Tetris mother fucker" when you spawn :D

[aVoN]

I have no idea why, but it seems not to play any sounds for me.
I required the module, the table gspeak exists and MS-Sam is preselected on my XP (SP3 + latest patches).

I also renamed gm_speak -> gmcl_speak since I only want to have the module on clside available. But that's not the problem.

[jA_cOp]

Is Microsoft Sam working for you in the Windows test input box in its control panel entry?

Try overriding the default volume by specifying a second argument like so,
[lua]gspeak.Say(("Hello!"):rep(10), 100)[/lua]

[aVoN]

Ms. Sam works for me over the controlpanel and I already tried using different volumes without any results.

[Deco Da Man]

Can you add a gspeak.IsSpeaking function, please.

I've managed to use my Stereo Mix device to make it so people can go:
"Dico, say OMG CHEESE"
And the TTS will say "oh em gee cheese" over the microphone
But I have to do +voicerecord constantly.

Epic module, thanks for making it.

[jA_cOp]

That's a good idea, I'll make it once I get my laptop back from repairs, that's where I have all the stuff I need to develop.

[D3CR1PT0R]

Here's what I did. I downloded this rar file, extracted on desktop, copied the file named gm_speak.dll and put it in:

C:\program files\Steam\steamapps\username\garrysmod\garrysmod\lua\includes\modules

then restarted my gmod, clicked on play singleplayer, and put this in console:

lua_openscript speak.lua
lua_openscript_cl speak.lua

and the speak.lua file looks very similar to the one in the first post:

[lua]
require("speak")

local function textchat( ply, text, toall)
gspeak.Say(text)
ply:ChatPrint( text )
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "TextChat", textchat )
[/lua]

When I type something in chat, my gmod crashes.

[jA_cOp]

Made a quick update adding two functions; gspeak.IsSpeaking and gspeak.QueueSize. The former should be fairly self-explanatory, the latter returns the amount of messages that are waiting to be spoken, including the one currently being spoken.

[url]http://upl.luahelp.com/uploads/zIxGNQoA/gSpeak%201.6.zip[/url]

Sorry that this took so long, I totally forgot about this module.

[n00berific]

The sounds never play for me, the QueueSize function works correctly, but IsSpeaking always returns true. It's quite odd and I do have MS Sam selected as default in speech.

[jA_cOp]

Hm, I only ever tested this with MS Anna. Has MS Sam worked for anyone?

[yakahughes]

For some reason, this isn't working at all. I have MS Mike selected as the default voice, and my code is as follows:

[lua]require("speak")

concommand.Add("speak", function(ply, cmd, args)
print(gSpeak.IsSpeaking())
gspeak.Say("Blah no see way gid")
end)[/lua]

I of course have the latest module in lua/includes/modules or something like that. I don't hear anything, but get no errors, and nothing prints in the print(gSpeak.IsSpeaking()) at all. Anyone know why this is? I would really like to use this.

[jA_cOp]

Well - is the code actually run? Put a print after the call to require. gSpeak.IsSpeaking always returns a boolean value, so if the console command really was registered there is no way running it won't print anything.

[yakahughes]

[lua]require("speak")

concommand.Add("speak", function(ply, cmd, args)
print(gSpeak.IsSpeaking())
gspeak.Say("Blah no see way gid", 100, 0)
end)

print("tts loaded")[/lua]

Yes, it prints tts loaded right after it says Lua 5.1 initialized or whatever. And still, print(gSpeak.IsSpeaking()) is nothing. The sound is all the way up and I can hear game sounds fine.

[jA_cOp]

It seems that the problem is with "speak". Use another name for the console command.

[n00berific]

Alright, I decided to make a sample video using gSpeak 1.6 showing that "speak" isn't the only problem.

[hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxIQ9bp82w&fmt=22&hd=1[/hd]

Lua Script Used:
[lua]require("speak")

concommand.Add("gspeak", function(ply, command, args)
if #args == 0 then print("Usage: gspeak <message>") return end
for k,arg in pairs(args) do
string.Replace(arg, "\"", "")
string.Replace(arg, "'", "")
end
gspeak.Say(table.concat(args), 100)
end)

concommand.Add("gspeak_isspeaking", function(ply, command, args)
print(gspeak.IsSpeaking())
end)

concommand.Add("gspeak_queuesize", function(ply, command, args)
print(gspeak.QueueSize())
end)[/lua]

I placed this in autorun/client/gspeak.lua

Also, sorry for the annoying birds in the background lol.

I do have a theory as to why it isn't working with Microsoft Sam. You see, since Anna and Sam are on different SAPI engines, I figure that the module isn't accessing the version of SAPI that Sam is on correctly and thus, no sound occurs. This also worked for d3cr1pt0r with the same script that I used who is running on Windows 7.