ebyroid

Ebyroid is a node native addon for VOICEROID+ and VOICEROID2 supports.
It provides an access from Node.js Javascript to VOICEROIDs through N-API and native codes, which is fast.
We also provide a standalone HTTP server as Win32 executable so you can avoid the certain difficult problems.

Supported VOICEROIDs

• VOICEROID2
• VOICEROID+ (partially)
  • Tohoku Zunko, Tohoku KiritanEx, Kotonoha Akane, Kotonoha Aoi

Requirements (as npm package)

• Windows (10 or Server recomennded)
• Node.js for Windows x86 (win32-ia32) - ^12.13.1
• CMake for Windows - ^3.16.4
• MSVC ^2017, or just get the latest Visual Studio Community if you aren't certain what it would mean
• Powershell ^3
• Voiceroid libraries installed with a valid and legitimate license

Requirements (as standalone server)

• Windows (10 or Server recommended)
• Voiceroid libraries installed with a valid and legitimate license

Install

npm package

After you fulfilled the requirements above:

npm i ebyroid

standalone server

TBD

Usage

npm package

const { Ebyroid, Voiceroid } = require('ebyroid');

const akari = new Voiceroid('akari-chan', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AHS\\VOICEROID2', 'akari_44');
const kiritan = new Voiceroid('kiritan-chan', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AHS\\VOICEROID+\\KiritanEX', 'kiritan_22');

const ebyroid = new Ebyroid(akari, kiritan);

ebyroid.use('akari-chan');

async function main() {
  const pcm1 = await ebyroid.convert('こんにちは');
  const pcm2 = await ebyroid.convertEx('東京特許許可局東京特きょきょきゃこく', 'kiritan-chan');
  // and your code goes here...
}

main();

standalone server

on CMD

C:\ebyroid> ebyroid.exe configure
C:\ebyroid> ebyroid.exe start --port 3333

on Powershell

PS C:\ebyroid> ./ebyroid configure
PS C:\ebyroid> ./ebyroid start --port 4567

API Endpoints of Standalone Server

GET /api/v1/audiostream

query parameters

id	type	required	desc	example
text	string	yes	TTS content	text=今日は%20はじめまして
name	string	no	Voiceroid to use	name=kiritan-chan

response types

• 200 OK => application/octet-stream
• 4xx and 5xx => application/json

extra response headers

id	value	desc
Ebyroid-PCM-Sample-Rate	22050\|44100\|48000	Samples per sec
Ebyroid-PCM-Bit-Depth	16	Fixed to 16-bit
Ebyroid-PCM-Number-Of-Channels	1\|2	Mono or Stereo

Note that these headers will be sent only with 200 OK.

response body

Byte stream of the Linear PCM data.
The stream doesn't contain file header bytes since this endpoint is rather for those who want to deal with raw audio data.
Use GET /api/v1/audiofile instead if you demand .wav file.

GET /api/v1/audiofile

query parameters

id	type	required	desc	example
text	string	yes	TTS content	text=今晩は%20さようなら
name	string	no	Voiceroid to use	name=akane-chan

response types

• 200 OK => audio/wav
• 4xx and 5xx => application/json

extra response headers

None.

response body

Complete data for a .wav file.
Any modern browser should support either to play or to download it.

FAQ

Why do I have to use 32-bit node?

Because Ebyroid is a native addon that interacts with VOICEROID's 32-bit native code.
When you need to interact with 32-bit code, it is necessary that your code also runs in 32-bit.

How do I switch 64-bit node and 32-bit node?

Use nvm. Also consider to use Ebyroid's standalone server.

VOICEROID+ supports looks poor, why?

As of VOICEROID2, the software design is sophisticated and there's only one executable while voice librariy varies.
That's why VOICEROID2 is fully supported. Just making a support for the one executable works fine.

In contrast, every VOICEROID+ has its own executable, which means I need to write an individual support for each library.
And I just f--king ran out of money after buying 4 of them.

I'd appreciate your support as in making a pull request, opening an issue or emailing me.

Does Ebyroid support concurrency?

Yes. It sticks to asynchronous operation as hard as I can do in native code so as not to break Node's concept.
That results in Ebyroid being able to process ^100RPS when the CPU is fast enough.

That said, however, some operation like switching voiceroid may acquire the inter-thread lock and take couple hundreds of millis (200ms-400ms practically) solely by itself. Be aware that frequent occurrance of such events may lead to slowen the whole app.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Disclaimer

Since Ebyroid is merely an ad-hoc, non-profit, open source and free library that interacts with VOICEROID, it doesn't contain any data with commercial value nor has any intent to exploit. Ebyroid only uses information loaded to RAM in human readable format, such like a string, considered to be public, as means of Fair Use of public information.

I will never be responsible for any consequences in connection with any use of Ebyroid or anyone that uses Ebyroid. I will only be concerned with calls of the US federal courts through Github, Inc. thus any other call and request from other authority or a company shall be ignored and immediately removed.

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