BrickPi Book Paper Reader
A few months ago, we made a Bookreader powered by the BrickPi which had the ability to read pages from your Kindle. There was a huge response to the project. But what everyone really wanted was a bookreader that could read a real paper book.
Here we present to you the BrickPi Bookreader 2 which can read aloud a real book (the voice becomes a bit irritating after a while) and also turn the pages of the book (we are really proud of this).
8. Setting Up the TTS Engine
For the TTS, we are using eSpeak. It works fine for our purposes: the voice is a little robotic, but it does the job. Here is a definitive guide to TTS on RPi.
First test if the audio is working on the Raspberry Pi. Plug a headphone or speakers in the audio jack and run the following command:
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*
If you are able to hear the sounds, move to the next step! If not, this tutorial may help you setup the audio.
Next, install eSpeak. Run the following in terminal:
sudo apt-get install espeak
After it successfully installed, run the following command (disregard error messages on the terminal if you can hear sound):
espeak “hello”
If you are able to hear “hello” from the headphones or the speakers, then move to the next step.