R Observatory: Metrics for conrad version 1.0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

conrad

1.0.0.1Package record

Client for the Microsoft's 'Cognitive Services Text to Speech REST' API

1packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

15.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Howard BaekCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Convert text into synthesized speech and get a list of supported voices for a region. Microsoft's 'Cognitive Services Text to Speech REST' API https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/rest-text-to-speech?tabs=streaming supports neural text to speech voices, which support specific languages and dialects that are identified by locale.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("conrad", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("fhdsl/conrad")

Development version from fhdsl/conrad. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-conrad

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-conrad

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-conrad

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0.1

READMEYes · 782 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.0.0.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 67%6 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,005 · ~20/day · ~601/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37130 days

1.1K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on81 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fhdsl/conrad ↗Organization: fhdsl

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

77Commits

4Commit identities

azurertext-to-speechtts

77 commits · Last activity 2025-01-06 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 117
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 10

Stars over time

2024-07-14 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fhdsl/conrad on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-01-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing conrad adds 14 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

httr2 jsonlite magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

text2speech

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Howard Baek

John Muschelli

Author

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-08-19 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-07-03
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-03
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("conrad")

Format

Baek, H., & Muschelli, J. (2024). conrad: Client for the Microsoft's 'Cognitive Services Text to Speech REST' API (Version 1.0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.conrad

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for conrad version 1.0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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