API to Speech

An example to add speech responses to an API using Python, Flask and Pyvona

Installation

$ mkdir venv
$ export VENV='path_to_folder'/venv
$ virtualenv $VENV
$ . $VENV/bin/activate
$ $VENV/bin/pip install -U pyvona
$ $VENV/bin/pip install -U texttable
$ $VENV/bin/pip install -U flask
$ $VENV/bin/pip install -U duckduckgo2
$ $VENV/bin/pip install -U bleach

Configuration

Get an IVONA Speech Cloud Account and generate credentials: Access and Secret Key

Create configuration file config.cfg (or just edit and rename the config_example.cfg)

[main]
access_key = IVONA_ACCESS_KEY
secret_key = IVONA_SECRET_KEY

Run

$ $VENV/bin/python server.py

Open browser on printed URL, usually http://0.0.0.0:5000.

Usage

• Available Voices

  • Select the voice you want the results to be spoken with.

• Speak

  • Turn on and off speech response
  • speak [ ]: audio feedback off
  • speak [:heavy_check_mark:]: audio feedback on

• Results

  • The results will be showned here

• Add Data

  • Will create an entry with the inputed text and return the generated ID.
  • Note: The result returned is always in english.

• Get Data

  • Will get the data with the inputed ID (the inputed text) and show it in the Results and in the Edit Data sections.
  • Note: The result if nothing is found will be in english.

• Edit Data

  • Will edit the data fetched via Get Data with the new inputed text.
  • Note: The result returned (success|fail) is always in english.

• Delete Data

  • Will delete the data with the inputed ID.
  • Note: The result returned (success|fail) is always in english.

• Capitalize

  • Will get a capitalized version of the inputed text.

• Search

  • Will search for the inputed term using duckduck go API and get the first available response (text and a URL or just a URL).
  • Example: Weather in [city name]

• Get Audio

  • Used to get an audio file with speech of the inputed text.
    • Request examples for command line using curl:
      • GET Request: will generate the curl GET command to get the audio file for the inputed text
      • POST Request: will generate the curl POST command to get the audio file for the inputed text