eSpeak NG Java Editor

This is an eSpeakNG Editor rewritten in Java.

• Building
  • espeak-ng
  • espeak-ng-jeditor
• Running
• Documentation
• Licence
• TODOs

This editor is not production ready yet! For latest development news look at commits. For production purposes you can use older snapshot of espeak-ng-editor!

Building

Building espeak-ng (optional)

There library built in this project already, which is located in lib folder. Following is description how to build library from eSpeakNG source files:

eSpeakNG Java Editor relies on libraries of eSpeakNG, which have to be recompiled with custom settings. Clone eSpeakNG project and solve dependencies:

(To be sure) install additional packages:

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0 libportaudio2 sox libwxgtk3.0-dev libportaudio-dev

You need to install Mbrola to see Prosody tab, use this command:

sudo apt install mbrola mbrola-en1

When invoke building of espeak-ng project add additional -fPIC flags to compiler, e.g. by compiling in following way:

./autogen.sh
CFLAGS='-fPIC' ./configure --prefix=/usr
make -B

espeak-ng-jeditor

Clone espeak-ng-jeditor project. Note that espeak-ng and espeak-ng-jeditor projects should be subfolders of common folder!

Compile customized shared library by executing Bash script in espeak-ng-jeditor project folder:

./updateJNIchanges.sh

To rebuild Java classes, run Maven task:

mvn compile

Running

• In IDE: select MainWindow.java class in org.espeakng.jeditor.gui package and run it as Java application.
• In terminal ececute command: java -cp target/classes org.espeakng.jeditor.gui.MainWindow

Packaging

• To package editor in single *.jar file, execute command:

mvn clean compile assembly:single

• Then run archive located in target folder, by executing command:

java -jar eSpeakNG-jEditor.jar

(Note that libespeakservice.so file is copied to ../.lib folder from *.jar file for execution.)

Documentation

• General Editor info
• User interface
• All other documents
• Documentation for new Changes

Licence

This software is licenced under GNU Lesser General Public License

TODOs

Project design

• Figure out proper way to save phoneme data using JNI
• Implement phoneme replay using JNI to espeak-ng API
• Improved coverage of automated unit tests(76.1% Completed)
• Autogenerated *.h file and Java proxy classes using SWIG or similar JNI integration library
• Construct all MainWindow Objects according to Object Oriented Principles
• Implement compile buttons using ESpeak API

Editor GUI

• Implement process Lexicon menu correctly