Text to Speech [Dll] for Windows Desktop.

Hi,

Unity (Indie and Pro) can speak now. Sorry, only for Windows standalone

Need a Voice Recognition solution? Try this

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EDIT 05/01/18 NEW VERSION HERE......

Your are free to include this DLL in any app or project you want.
You are free to modify and change anything you want. Yes, even the copyright and my name.

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The "VoiceSpeaker.CS" file

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. // Voice Speaker  (c) ZJP
3. //
4. // Windows 32B >> Copy 'Voice_speaker.dll' in windows\system32 folder
5. // Windows 64B >> Copy 'Voice_speaker.dll' in windows\SysWOW64 folder
6. // Remember to release "Voice_speaker.dll" with your final project. It will be placed in the same folder as the EXE
7. //
8.     // Voice Speaker  (c) ZJP //
9.     using UnityEngine;
10.     using System;
11.     using System.Collections;
12.     using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
13.  
14.     public class VoiceSpeaker : MonoBehaviour
15.     {
16.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="VoiceAvailable")] private static extern int    VoiceAvailable();
17.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="InitVoice")]      private static extern void   InitVoice();
18.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="WaitUntilDone")]  private static extern int    WaitUntilDone(int millisec);
19.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="FreeVoice")]      private static extern void   FreeVoice();
20.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceCount")]  private static extern int    GetVoiceCount();
21.  
22.         // Unity V4.x.x
23.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceName")]   private static extern IntPtr GetVoiceName(int index);
24.         //  other Unity version
25.         // [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceName")]   private static extern string GetVoiceName(int index);
26.  
27.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="SetVoice")]       private static extern void   SetVoice(int index);
28.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="Say")]            private static extern void   Say(string ttospeak);
29.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="SayAndWait")]     private static extern void   SayAndWait(string ttospeak);
30.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="SpeakToFile")]    private static extern int    SpeakToFile(string filename, string ttospeak);
31.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceState")]  private static extern int    GetVoiceState();
32.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceVolume")] private static extern int    GetVoiceVolume();
33.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="SetVoiceVolume")] private static extern void   SetVoiceVolume(int volume);
34.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="GetVoiceRate")]   private static extern int    GetVoiceRate();
35.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="SetVoiceRate")]   private static extern void   SetVoiceRate(int rate);
36.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="PauseVoice")]     private static extern void   PauseVoice();
37.         [DllImport ("Voice_speaker.dll", EntryPoint="ResumeVoice")]    private static extern void   ResumeVoice();
38.  
39.         public int voice_nb = 0;
40.  
41.         void Start ()
42.         {
43.             if( VoiceAvailable()>0 )
44.             {
45.                 InitVoice(); // init the engine
46.          
47.                 if (voice_nb > GetVoiceCount()) voice_nb = 0;
48.                 if (voice_nb < 0) voice_nb = 0;
49.  
50.                 // Unity V4.x.x *******************************************
51.                 IntPtr pStr = GetVoiceName(voice_nb);
52.                 string str = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(pStr);
53.                 Debug.Log ("Voice name : "+str); // Voice Name
54.                 // Unity V4.x.x *******************************************
55.  
56.                 //Debug.Log ("Voice name : "+GetVoiceName(voice_nb)); // Voice Name other Unity version
57.  
58.                 Debug.Log ("Number of voice : "+GetVoiceCount()); // Number of voice
59.        
60.                 SetVoice(voice_nb); // 0 to voiceCount - 1
61.                 Debug.Log ("Voice Rate : "+GetVoiceRate());
62.                 SetVoiceRate(2);
63.        
64.                 //Debug.Log ("Voice name : "+GetVoiceName(voice_nb));
65.                 Say("All system nominal. Engine, online, weapons, online.. We are ready. 9.,.8.,.7.,.6.,.5.,.4.,.3.,.2.,.1.,.0.,. Go,.Take off");
66.                 // Say("Tout les systèmes sont opérationnels. Moteurs, en ligne. Armement, en ligne. Nous sommes prêt. 9.,.8.,.7.,.6.,.5.,.4.,.3.,.2.,.1.,.0.,. .Décollage" );
67.             }
68.             Application.Quit();
69.         }
70.  
71.         void OnDisable()
72.         {
73.             if( VoiceAvailable()>0 )
74.             {
75.                 FreeVoice();
76.             }
77.         }
78.     }
79.  

Have fun,

JP


Edit :

Do not forget : executing Windows\sysWOW64\speech\SpeechUX\SAPI.cpl brings up a Window that displays all of the 32 bit Voices and the current single 64 bit Voice "Anna".




RealSpeak Solo de Nuance (Scansoft). Free Voice

(French - Virgine) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4FrenchVirginie.zip
(German) - Steffi) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4GermanSteffi.zip
(Italia) - Silvia) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4ItalianSilvia.zip
(Spanish) - Isabel) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4SpanishIsabel.zip
(English) - Emily) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4UKEnglishEmily.zip
(Us - Jennifer ) http://udm4.com/Windows/RealSpeak_Solo_Direc-391899

EDIT 12-18-15.
NEW VERSION (WITH SOURCES) HERE......

 

I saw this post over at http://www.unity3d-france.com - Nice one!

 

TX

 

Hi,

.CS file updated with news functions in post one.

JP

 

Bien ahí pibe!!!... good work!!!
There is a voice known as "Jorge Loquendo"... of course, from Loquendo company. It is possible to assign that voice to the voice system?

Greets

 

Hi,

Works with all SAPI engines. http://www.loquendo.com/en/technology/tts_specifications.htm (SAPI 4 and 5 (Win 32)

JP

Edit : I "saw" the demo. Very good engine.

 

It's very impresive... Jorge's voice (spanish) it one of the best.
I will markup this thread

Thanks for your work!

 

Hi,

The French voices are amazing too. But I have not seen prices. :cry:

JP

 

Public apology to Unity Techology for having treated them as "pettiness" for disabling the "System.Runtime.InteropServices" allowing access to native DLLs.
It works again. Thanks guys

JP

 

Dear ZJP,

Thank you for sharing the DLL and the C# code.
That was very easy to use.
Is there also some other utility/tool to achive lips sync to "Say" (said/spoken words)?

Thanks!

-Adamo

 

Is there a way to implement TTS for 64 bit windows running unity as well?

 

This beatiful. ROFL.

Can you make manual like, change voice and tips.
This is awesome.

Thanks for share man.

It's make my day cool!

 

Hi!! Thanks for the great work with this DLL... I've been experiencing some performance problems (the words are not played fluently) in computers with limited hardware capabilities while playing text with more than 6 or 7 words.

Is there something I must consider when using your functions? Or things I could do for increasing performance.

I first get all the voices installed with GetVoiceCount() and GetVoiceName(int index)
Then when I want to play some text, I set the voice with SetVoice(int index) and after that I call the Say(string ttospeak) function with the text I want.

If someone with the same problem could help me or point me in some direction, I would really appreciate it.

 

Dear JZP,

I would find your code very useful since I am developing a project involving TTS. Yet I seem unable to get Unity to see the dll. I copy it as you suggested to the system32 folder (and I even tried to copy it in my assets folder). Yet when I try to run your example script I get a DllNotFoundException.

I am quite a new user of Unity so forgive me if I am asking somthing that I should know

Thanks again for the code

...

Oops, got the solution. For people who are on a Win 7 x64 system. Don't copy the dll in the system32 forlder but in the SysWOW64 one.

 

Any chance of this working on ios?

 

Nice. Thx for the tip

No. Sorry

JP

 

where is the file, a necessary licenses?

Is there a guide?

 

Very nice, ill have to check it out when i get home.

 

Has anyone worked with this recently? It works for me, but crashes Unity about 80% of the time (working great the other 20%) upon hitting "Play."

 

I am currently using it. You need to make sure you call Init and set the voice. Also if you Free the voice you will need to Init again and set the voice again.

 

i .......have NO idea what to do here .

i placed the 32 but dll in the correct folder and created the C# script but i don't know what to do from there . what should i do ?

 

How to improve it that it works on mobile platform as they also support plugins?

 

Hi guys, I've put the dll in the right folder, attached the ZJP's sample script to the main camera and pressed "Play". After that Unity just crashes down and the Unity Bug Reporter pops up. I tried to set the voice_nb to 1, -1... the same. Btw, I'm a noob in programming, so when this question sounds stupid, please don't be angry. I would appreciate any ideas to solve my problem.

Regards, Arthur!

 

Hi,

Win32 or Win64?

Tested on Unity 3.5.6 without pb.

It's a Windows DLL. Sorry

 

Hi same Problem here. Unity4 x64 Win7 placed dll in right directory and attatched the script. Unity simply crashes.

when i look at the log it says that it can't find the dll.

 

@xfelalx You need to make sure that it is returning something when you hit play. As an example, if I leave my text box in the editor empty it will crash. As soon as I enter anything, it works. The same goes for a lot of the other functions, like volume and so on.

I do have a problem though, I cannot get it to speak when I have built my project. It works fine in Unity itself but as soon as I play my build, there is nothing. Do I need to enable something or put a file in my play folder?

Edit: To make sure the TTS works in my build I have set the architecture to x86 only, not x86_x64.

 

Steps to get this working for me:

1: Place DLL in SysWOW64
2: Run Unity, attach script
3: Run Scene, wait for Unity to crash
4: Activate debugger from crash dialog
5: Run scene while / after debugger is done -> Text plays

Restarting Unity after TTS works will cause Unity to crash again after pressing Play until the debugger is active again.

Anyone have any idea how to get around the debugger?

 

rastilion, when you press play (without the debugger) how are you setting the text in your code?

 

how you can use it? please help me attach to my project? or do simply working project.

 

Hi,

Seems not to work with Unity V4. Why? (Mono?) I do not know.

 

ZJP, it works fine for me in Unity 4.x (free). I have most of it working how I would like it to apart from the WaitUntilDone feature which seems to pause everything in the game until it has done speaking and the allows animations, input etc to continue.

 

I got the crash problem, and I found that it comes from the function
GetVoiceName(voice_nb)

I simply remove this function from the code, and it works now.

 

Confirmed.. removed both calls to GetVoiceName() (on lines 38 and 39), and everything else works great

 

With regards to Keerati and Seth; do you both find that the game is smoother when running without that function? For me, I get a bit of lag before the speech occurs. It may be the way I am implementing it but I am not sure.

 

It's the pb. Thx for the tip.
I've update the original post.

RealSpeak Solo de Nuance (Scansoft). Free Voice

(French - Virgine) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4FrenchVirginie.zip
(German) - Steffi) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4GermanSteffi.zip
(Italia) - Silvia) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4ItalianSilvia.zip
(Spanish) - Isabel) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4SpanishIsabel.zip
English) - Emily) http://www.mta.alainlapierre.com/res/RSSolo4UKEnglishEmily.zip


JP

 

How do you use the say and wait function? For what I need, I need the game to speak and then wait for a second or wait for some input from the user.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

You can simply use:

SayAndWait("Please enter some sort of input");
showInputBox = true; //or whatever

void OnGUI(){
if(showInputBox)
....etc
}

In other words, the next line is reached once the speech is complete.

for further assistance try the answers forum

 

Well, I got it to work but the game stops completely so it can finish speaking, all but the music in my game. Like I have said, I'm not sure if this happens to everyone else or just me.

 

Confirmed. It's a bug.With Unity V4.0, V4.1 AND V4.1.1
Waiting for the 4.1.2?!

Edit :

Solved by joncham (Unity Tech Software Engineer)

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/17...ack-to-Unity?p=1198009&viewfull=1#post1198009

First post updated.

 

I try it with Chinese tts, but it seems the string got converted wrong and the engine speak incorrect word. Is it possible to use Chinese tts? Thanks!

 

Hi there! Is it possible to make the voice act like a 3D sound?

 

Regarding of Text to Speech [Dll] for Win32, how could I put play/pause/stop button? I don't want it to autoplay because it is one of the requirements on our project. Thank you for the reply sir! God Bless!

 

All you need to do is set up and call the pause function from another script in in the same one but at some gui stuff to it

 

+1

 

Hey there ZJP,

I'm trying to use this in my project and keep getting this error:

DllNotFoundException: Voice_speaker.dll
VoiceSpeaker.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Speech/VoiceSpeaker.cs:50)

I downloaded the .zip in your first post and dropped the .dll into the assets folder. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 

Never Mind,

I dropped the .dll into the SysWOW64 folder and it worked.
I recommend that you add to your first post with the instruction that you have to do that.

 

Lancer, there is a note in the first post about where to put the .dll, you just didn't read it.

 

I did read it, the way it was typed made it sound like he was saying to copy a file from one of those directories, not put it in.

 

hey ZJP,

How do I slow the voice down? I've set the voice rate to 1 and tried 0 and it is still too fast.

 

Oh, got it,

I thought that -1 would make the voice talk backwards, but it just slowed it down more.