Text to Speech

Extension Description

Text to Speech Extension allows projects which use it to output synthesized speech. The service is provided by Amazon Web Services.

Available in: Block Coding
Mode: Stage Mode
WiFi Required: No
Compatible Hardware in Block Coding: evive, Quarky, Arduino Uno, Arduino Mega, Arduino Nano, ESP32, T-Watch, Boffin, micro:bit, TECbits, LEGO EV3, LEGO Boost, LEGO WeDo 2.0, Go DFA, None
Compatible Hardware in Python: Not Applicable
Object Declaration in Python: Not Applicable
Extension Catergory: Artificial Intelligence

Introduction

The Text to Speech Extension is an extension that allows projects which use it to output synthesized speech. The service is provided by Amazon Web Services.

Voices

There are five types of voices that can be selected with the set voice to () block:

Name	Description
alto	standard female voice
tenor	standard male voice
squeak	high-pitched female voice
giant	deep male voice
kitten	repeatedly says “meow” but sometimes at a different length

Supported Languages

This extension allows the language of the voice to be changed, but there are not as many languages as the Translate extension.

Arabic
Chinese (Mandarin)
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Hindi
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese (European)
Romanian
Russian
Spanish (European)
Spanish (Latin American)
Swedish
Turkish
Welsh

PictoBlox Blocks

The speak () block uses the text-to-speech tool to speak the given text. It will speak the selected voice with the chosen language in the set language to () block. Usage of the block is limited to 128 characters. If a string longer than 128 characters is given, then only the first 128 characters will be spoken.