A Docker image for a relatively light-weight full Arabic speech synthesis system
- Launch the server
$ git clone https://github.com/nawarhalabi/festival-tts-arabic-voices-docker
$ cd festival-tts-arabic-voices-docker
$ docker kill festival
$ docker rm festival
$ docker build -t festival-arabic:latest .
$ docker run -p 8080:8080 -v <wav files dir>:/tts --name festival festival-arabic:latest
This will take about 20 mins to finish. Bare in mind the <wav files dir> will contain the generated the wav files after sending the http request based on certain config below
- Configure Apache or any webserver to serve the static file directory
<wav files dir>throughhttp://<hostname or ip>/tts/ - Use the following JS and HTML as a template for creating a web interface for using the voice:
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head><textarea id="input-text" dir="rtl" name="arabic-text" rows="5" placeholder="Please enter Arabic text"></textarea>
<input id="tts-btn-mishkal" type="button" name="synthesise-mishkal" value="Synthesise (Mishkal as diacritiser)">
<input id="tts-btn-shakkala" type="button" name="synthesise-shakkala" value="Synthesise (Shakkala as diacritiser)">
<audio controls="">
<source id="source" src="" type="audio/wav">
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</audio>
<script>
tts_server = 'http://<hostname or ip>/tts/';
$('#tts-btn-mishkal').on('click', function(e) {
$.getJSON({
url: 'http://<hostname or ip>:8080/mishkal/synth/url/' + $('#input-text').val(),
data: '',
success: function( data ) {
$('audio #source').attr('src', tts_server + data['url']);
$('audio').get(0).load();
$('audio').get(0).play();
}
});
});
$('#tts-btn-shakkala').on('click', function(e) {
$.getJSON({
url: 'http://<hostname or ip>:8080/shakkala/synth/url/' + $('#input-text').val(),
data: '',
success: function( data ) {
$('audio #source').attr('src', tts_server + data['url']);
$('audio').get(0).load();
$('audio').get(0).play();
}
});
});
</script>- For direct wav response:
- In a browser: http://localhost:8080/shakkala/synth/file/<text_to_synthesise>
- In a browser: http://localhost:8080/mishkal/synth/file/<text_to_synthesise>
- For file generation (This will respond with a json containing the name of the file to load from the server in a separate http request):
- In a browser: http://localhost:8080/shakkala/synth/url/<text_to_synthesise>
- In a browser: http://localhost:8080/mishkal/synth/url/<text_to_synthesise>
- NOTE if you are running docker on Windows (or with a docker machine in general) get the ip or hostname of the machine and use it instead of localhost above