Thomas' Work Space

1. GoogleTTS allows for arbitrary-length input text (it chunks it automatically).
2. GoogleTTS produces intermediate local audio files which we can postprocess.
3. Google Translate’s automatic language recognition remains a sore point: it is not reliable. Unlike Google Translate, GoogleTTS has no interface to set the language manually when the automatic recognition fails.

$global:folder = 'G:\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5'
$filter = '*.mp3' # <-- set this according to your requirements
$global:destination = 'G:\conf\programs\GoogleTTS\mp3'
$global:path
$global:path1
$currenttimeFunction MonitorAndMoveFile{
$fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{
IncludeSubdirectories = $true # ja, brauch ich für googletts i<-- set this according to your requirements
NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'
}
$onCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action { # the even monitored is file created - to force recreation of files by googletts, you may have to clear watched folder of all mp3 < 100kb first
$global:path = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
Write-Host $global:path -ForegroundColor Magenta # this works also
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
start-sleep -Seconds 2 # The OnCreated event is raised as soon as a file is created.
if ($global:path -ne $global:path1) # it is a createdevent on a different file from last time - just in caseon oncreated not firing clear cut, but it seems to
{
$currenttime = Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd-hhmmss
Write-Host "attempt copy $global:path1 to $cuurrenttime" # try copying the past file
# Copy-Item -Path $global:path1 -Destination "G:\conf\programs\GoogleTTS\mp3\$currenttime.mp3" -Force # that worked with the last generated file, wait: the last one is the one that remaisn behind, earlier ones get overwritten
Copy-Item -LiteralPath $global:path1 -Destination "G:\conf\programs\GoogleTTS\mp3\$currenttime.mp3" -Force # that worked with the last generated file, wait: the last one is the one that remaisn behind, earlier ones get overwritten
# use parameter -literalPath because files in the temp folder have usually [ and ] inside the name which acts as wildcards characters
$global:path1 = $global:path
}}
while (1) {
sleep -Milliseconds 100
write-host $global:path # this works
}}
MonitorAndMoveFile
#Unregister-Event -SourceIdentifier FileCreated

1. Here I have a lot of questions for a speaking exam in ESL, and with a much better accent than my own.
2. Nifty, plus output sounds even better for German than for English. Note, there is no attempt to parse sentences semantically. Some languages chunk better than others (I made some little improvements in this regard to the original program). Other common problems include numbers and in German I find myself, when listening, tending to look up once in a while and shake a high school students by the shoulders, asking him: “Do you actually understand what you are reading?!” – which in my eyes is an indicator to the progress made in speech-synthesis.
3. Other examples include French,
4. Hindi,
5. Italian,
6. Spanish.