A cross-platform text-to-speech library with C interface, written in Rust.
It reverse-engineers the awesome Microsoft Edge Read aloud feature, allowing you to use it in your own projects in your preferred programming language.
Read aloud is a low-level library that is designed as a building block for higher-level text-to-speech libraries and applications.
The library provides a single function that takes a text, a voice, and a file path as input, and saves the output to the file in MP3 format.
int text_to_speech(const char *text, enum Voice voice, const char *f);The function returns 0 on success, and a non-zero error code on failure:
// Calling text_to_speech from C++ on Windows
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include "read_aloud.h"
typedef int (*TextToSpeechFunc)(const char *, Voice, const char *);
int main()
{
HMODULE hModule = LoadLibraryA("read_aloud.dll");
if (!hModule)
{
std::cerr << "Failed to load read_aloud.dll" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
TextToSpeechFunc text_to_speech = (TextToSpeechFunc)GetProcAddress(hModule, "text_to_speech");
if (!text_to_speech)
{
std::cerr << "Failed to get text_to_speech function address" << std::endl;
FreeLibrary(hModule);
return 1;
}
const char *text = "Hello, World!";
Voice voice = en_GB_ThomasNeural;
const char *file = "output.mp3";
int result = text_to_speech(text, voice, file);
if (result != 0)
{
std::cerr << "text_to_speech failed with error code " << result << std::endl;
}
else
{
std::cout << "Text to speech succeeded, output saved to " << file << std::endl;
}
FreeLibrary(hModule);
return 0;
}