Text To Speech From Wwise

Overview

This samples demonstrates how to generate WAV files from a text-to-speech from Wwise directly.

Demonstrates:

WAAPI ak.wwise.ui.getSelectedObjects
WAAPI ak.wwise.core.audio.import
Text to Speech using Windows Powershell
Wwise External Tools

Requirements

Node.js - Use the LTS version
git
Windows operating system
Windows Powershell (comes with Windows 10)

Setup

It works best with Visual Studio Code. Run the following commands.

Install dependencies:

npm install

Build Typescript:

npm run build

Execution

First, ensure WAAPI is enabled in Wwise:

menu Project/Preferences
Check Enable Wwise Authoring API
Click OK
Restart Wwise

Then, open a Wwise Project.

Adding this script as an external editor

In Wwise:

Open menu: Project > User Preferences
In the External Editors, click Add...
Browse for the text-to-speech.cmd file in this directory
Click OK

Executing

Create a Sound Voice object
Insert text in the Notes field
Right-click the Sound Voice object, and use the external editor text-to-speech

How it works

The source code is located in index.ts.

This script is executed as an external editor in Wwise from the current selection. It will retrieve the selection from WAAPI and generate a WAV file for each selected Sound objects using Windows text to speech. The WAV files will be automatically imported in the project with WAAPI.

Refer to this blog article for more information.

decasteljau/waapi-text-to-speech