TTS-Radio-Generator

I wanted a tool to generate sound files as radio calls for my DCS missions. It should use a Text-To-Speech engine, add some white noise and a click sound at the start and the end of the "transmission". I searched the web and found some existing projects which sounds more or less the tool I want to have.

• radio-message-generator: No binary release and I don't want to build it.

• DCS_RadioComm_VoiceLineGenerator: A nearly perfect match, but I needed the features which are planned for the future.

I had the idea to fork DCS_RadioComm_VoiceLineGenerator, add the featrures I needed by myself and make a merge request. But the way DCS_RadioComm_VoiceLineGenerator is coded is above my Python skill. So I was forced to create this tool from scratch. But the code adamclmns has shared was a great help and a good insperation. So many thanks to him for his work!

Features

• Use Windows or Google Text-To-Speach engine to generate sound files
• Choose the voice used for generation
• Use a csv text file for batch processing, each line creates one sond file
• Optionally add white noise to the sound files
• Optionally add start and end click sounds
• target codec is ogg to save disk space and use it for DCS
• Configurable sound volumes for white noise and target file
• Configurable values for Low and High pass filters

Prerequisits

Python is able to process wav files directly, but for saving the file in ogg format ffmpeg is needed. There are different way to get ffmpeg:

• The easiest is to use chocolaty to install ffmpeg with the command choco install ffmpeg
• Then change the value FfMpegHome in your yml file (an example is included in defaul.yml)

Another way is to download it directly from BtbN:

• Download ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip
• Place it in the same folder as tts-radio-generator.exe
• Extract it and rename it to create the following structure: ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe
• Adopt the path to the bin folder in your yml configuration file (an example is included in defaul.yml)

How to use the source code

If you want to run the script with Python you need:

• Python 3.x
• All libraries from requirements.txt (run `install.cmd`` to get them)
• Save this repo somewhere onto your hard disk
• Run tts-radio-generator.py without any parameters
• It will use ./conf/default.yml and ./conf/example.csv to create sound files with Microsoft TTS
• Install as much languages as you like to your windows, if you want to use Windows Text-To-Speech with another voice
• Copy default.yml to a new file, e.g. custom-myproject.yml
• Copy example.csv to a new file, e.g. custom-myproject.csv
• Change both files to match your needs
• Run tts-radio-generator.py -c ./conf/custom-myproject.yml
• If you want to use Google TTS you can use default-google.yml as a template

How to use the release

• Save the release somewhere onto your hard disk
• Unzip it
• Run tts-radio-generator.exe without any parameters
• It will use ./conf/default.yml and ./conf/example.csv to create sound files with Microsoft TTS
• Install as much languages as you like to your windows, if you want to use Windows Text-To-Speech with another voice
• Copy default.yml to a new file, e.g. custom-myproject.yml
• Copy example.csv to a new file, e.g. custom-myproject.csv
• Change both files to match your needs
• Run tts-radio-generator.exe -c ./conf/custom-myproject.yml
• If you want to use Google TTS you can use default-google.yml as a template

ToDo

• Maybe add more TTS engines like AWS or Azure