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gustav/speaker
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Convert text to speech using web services

v1.3.2(6y ago)0101Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^7.2

Since May 19Pushed 6y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/GustavSoftware/speaker)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/gustav/speaker)[ Docs](https://github.com/duncan3dc/speaker)[ RSS](/packages/gustav-speaker/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced today

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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)

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*
- **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)

duncan3dc/speaker for enterprise
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[](#duncan3dcspeaker-for-enterprise)

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###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 51% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.7% 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 ~134 days

Recently: every ~214 days

Total

15

Last Release

2227d ago

Major Versions

0.7.3 → 1.0.02017-10-14

PHP version history (6 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

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2e94b9c2235f7f12553818a7f94540eedaa2026a287d07ef12e1315ca559941a?d=identicon)[ckoecher](/maintainers/ckoecher)

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Top Contributors

[![duncan3dc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/546811?v=4)](https://github.com/duncan3dc "duncan3dc (76 commits)")[![fdp2](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7798051?v=4)](https://github.com/fdp2 "fdp2 (1 commits)")

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Tags

speechtext-to-speechtts

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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