SimpleSpeak text-to-speech

Filters ::: filter_simplespeak

Maintained by

Nick Freear

A Moodle filter to provide speech synthesis (text-to-speech/ TTS) services for arbitrary text.

Latest release: 13 years

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34 downloads

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Current versions available: 1

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A filter to provide speech synthesis (text-to-speech/ TTS) services for arbitrary text. Text such as [Speak] Hello world! [/Speak] is replaced with a button with the text as a label. Press the button, and the text is spoken!

This is beneficial, for example, when teaching younger children. And for accessibility to those with disabilities.

Requirements: tested with Moodle 1.9.7 and 2.0.2 (all Moodle 1.9.x and 2.0.x should work). Requires Javascript. Requires a TTS service - see Readme.

Uses: jQuery (v1.3.2).

Installation

Download and unzip the code files. Copy to the directory on the server, eg.
```
  /var/www/moodle/filter/simplespeak/
```
Log in to Moodle as admin, visit `Site Administration | Modules | Filters | Manage Filters`. Scroll down and click on the icon for Simplespeak to enable it.
Choose SimpleSpeak under Filters, and add a TTS service. Or set in config.php, eg.
```
$CFG->simplespeak_service_url =
  'http://example.org/cgi-bin/espeak/getsound.pl?lang=!LANG&text=!TEXT';
```
The string can contain two placeholders, !TEXT and optionally !LANG (language). This service can be local, or third-party - see Readme.
Ensure that the directory $CFG->datarootis writeable by the Apache user, or create a writeable cache directory,
```
  $CFG->dataroot/simplespeak/cache/
```

Usage

Simple example. Enable the filter (admin). Then, type the following in a Moodle resource:

  [Speak] Hello world! [/Speak]

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Contributors

Nick Freear (Lead maintainer)

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Comments

Frankie Kam
Fri, 28 June 2013, 7:38 AM
Hi Nick
Very strange. The same filter which works on Moodle 1.9.15, with the setting text of:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=!TEXT
doesn't work in Moodle 2.5. I can't figure out why. Any ideas?
Matthew Brewer
Mon, 6 Jan 2014, 7:03 PM
Is there a way to change the font from what appears to be green comic sans to what appears on the rest of the page? I've been looking through the code, and I'm not seeing anything that jumps out at me for changing it. Any help would be appreciated!
Suresh Dhanakotti
Tue, 7 Jan 2014, 12:52 AM
Hi,
currently it supports only 100 chars with tag if it exceeds it not working. Is there any way to increase the chars?
Rolf Cper
Thu, 18 Dec 2014, 10:39 PM
Hallo Nick,
Does this plugin work in Moodle version 2.8?
Regards,
Rges
kong lan
Mon, 22 Dec 2014, 4:12 PM
I test this plugin. It cannot work in moodle 2.7. When I input [speak] apple [/speak] in html, the voice label doesn't show.
Cristian Sima
Mon, 16 May 2016, 12:03 AM
Doesn't work in Moodle 2.6
Krisha Moeller
Tue, 5 Dec 2017, 6:23 AM
Hello! I'm having trouble installing this to Moodle 3.3. When I do, I get the following error message:

Install plugin from ZIP file
Validating filter_simplespeak ... Error
[Error] Plugin does not declare its component name [null]
Installation aborted due to validation failure

Do you know what I should do? Thank you for your help!
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Wed, 25 Aug 2021, 2:08 AM
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