Dictation Game

Dictation game for kids to practice their spelling.

• Uses either OpenAI's TTS API or Google's TTS API to generate audio for the words.
• The Sound of Learning: Using OpenAI’s Text-to-Speech API for a Simple Dictation Game for Kids

Required Packages

• colorama (https://pypi.org/project/colorama/)
• google-cloud-texttospeech (https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-texttospeech/)
• nltk (https://www.nltk.org/)
• openai (https://pypi.org/project/openai/)
• pygame (https://www.pygame.org/)
• pyyaml (https://pyyaml.org/)
• termcolor (https://pypi.org/project/termcolor/)

Install these via pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

• python dictation_game.py [--grade {grade1|grade3|nltk}]
• Use grades as named in words.yaml configuration file
• To use NLTK's wordnet to generate words, set grade to nltk
• To use OpenAI's Text-to-Speech:
  • OpenAI's TTS API (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech)
  • Needs valid OpenAPI API key set as OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable (https://platform.openai.com/api-keys)
• To use Google's Text-to-Speech::
  • Google's TTS API (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs)
  • Enable Cloud Text-to-Speech API (https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=texttospeech.googleapis.com)
  • Authenticate via gcloud auth application-default login

Attributions

• Uses Jingle_Win_Synth_06.wav from LittleRobotSoundFactory under CC BY 4.0 DEED Attribution 4.0 International license

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