Cvoc

"command-line voice, c voice, curl voice"

Cvoc is a console binary that produces text-to-speech audio files. It is written for Linux.
It requires an OpenAI authorization key set to an environment variable called GPTKEY. Cvoc uses the OpenAI audio.speech API with several speech parameters to convert text into speech in the form of an audio file. The quality of the speech produced is more lifelike than that of previous text-to-speech technologies.

Explanation of the API parameters

Cvoc uses the Linux utility 'play' (SoX) to play back the audio file.
Cvoc uses the 'curl' utility to create/stream the audio file.

How to Use

Cvoc uses a required cvoc.ini file to hold default values for the
text-to-speech parameters (~/.config/cvoc.ini). Edit this file to change the defaults.

example:

output=speech
voice=nova
format=mp3
speed=0.95
model=tts-1

Note: the output file name does not have its extension.
This is because it will use the format for its extention.

Two ways to execute cvoc:

cvoc

Executing without an argument prompts you for all of the parameters. Press Enter to accept the default value of any parameter. The text is the last parameter requested.

cvoc the cow jumped over the moon.

Executing with text produces an audio file based on default parameters (cvoc.ini).