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duncan3dc/speaker
=================

Convert text to speech using web services

1.6.1(2w ago)11439.9k↓64.6%341Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^8.1CI failing

Since May 19Pushed 1mo ago6 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (36)Versions (23)Used By (1)

speaker
=======

[](#speaker)

A PHP library to convert text to speech using various services

Full documentation is available at
PHPDoc API documentation is also available at [http://duncan3dc.github.io/speaker/api/](http://duncan3dc.github.io/speaker/api/namespaces/duncan3dc.Speaker.html)

[![release](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/42d771fbf309fdeb10903794eb8955503fef968283316f5ba58a8ee7a5e1e372/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f64756e63616e3364632f737065616b65722f76657273696f6e2e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/duncan3dc/speaker)[![build](https://github.com/duncan3dc/speaker/workflows/.github/workflows/buildcheck.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/duncan3dc/speaker/actions?query=branch%3Amaster+workflow%3A.github%2Fworkflows%2Fbuildcheck.yml)[![coverage](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e23e7555299c0f50879dd08a0b144da5491ddaeb7a6c6ec6ee616f16fa70275c/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636f762e696f2f67682f64756e63616e3364632f737065616b65722f67726170682f62616467652e737667)](https://codecov.io/gh/duncan3dc/speaker)

Quick Example
-------------

[](#quick-example)

```
$google = new \duncan3dc\Speaker\Providers\GoogleProvider;
$tts = new \duncan3dc\Speaker\TextToSpeech("Hello World", $google);
file_put_contents("/tmp/hello.mp3", $tts->getAudioData());
```

*Read more at *

Services
--------

[](#services)

- **Acapela** - *Paid voice as a service*
- **AmazonPolly** - *AWS service with a 12 month free tier*
- **Google** - *Unadvertised service with 100 character limit*
- **Picotts** - *An offline command line version*
- **ResponsiveVoice** - *Unadvertised service running over a javascript engine*
- **Voice RSS** - *Free/paid service requires [registration](http://www.voicerss.org/personel/)*

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

A [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) has been available since the beginning of time

Where to get help
-----------------

[](#where-to-get-help)

Found a bug? Got a question? Just not sure how something works?
Please [create an issue](//github.com/duncan3dc/speaker/issues) and I'll do my best to help out.
Alternatively you can catch me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/duncan3dc)

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[](#duncan3dcspeaker-for-enterprise)

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###  Health Score

64

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance92

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity44

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community26

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity81

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~227 days

Recently: every ~392 days

Total

19

Last Release

19d ago

Major Versions

0.7.3 → 1.0.02017-10-14

PHP version history (8 changes)0.1.0PHP >=5.4.0

0.5.0PHP >=5.5.0

0.7.0PHP ^5.6|^7.0

1.0.0PHP ^7.0

1.2.0PHP ^7.1

1.3.0PHP ^7.2

1.4.0PHP ^7.3 || ^8.0

1.6.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![duncan3dc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/546811?v=4)](https://github.com/duncan3dc "duncan3dc (102 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (3 commits)")[![austenc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/575421?v=4)](https://github.com/austenc "austenc (1 commits)")[![dipesh79](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/63183800?v=4)](https://github.com/dipesh79 "dipesh79 (1 commits)")[![fdp2](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7798051?v=4)](https://github.com/fdp2 "fdp2 (1 commits)")[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (1 commits)")

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Tags

phptext-to-speechttsspeechtext-to-speechtts

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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