Here you will get python text to speech example.
As we know, some people have difficulty reading large amounts of text due to dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Some people have basic literary levels. They often get frustrated trying to browse the internet because so much of it is in text form or on other hand some people prefer to listen or watch a news article (or something like this) instead of reading. So to solve all these problems a concept comes into mind that is ”text to speech”.
So in this tutorial we are going to learn that how to convert text to speech in Python. Here we’ll show you two best and easiest ways to convert your text into speech
- Text to speech without internet connection (using pyttsx3)
- Text to speech having internet connection (using gTTS)
Python Text to Speech Example
Method 1: Using pyttsx3
Pyttsx3 is an offline cross-platform Test-to-Speech library which is compatible with both Python 3 and Python 2 and supports multiple TTS engines
To use pyttsx3, first we have to download and install it. In order to install it open your command prompt or terminal and type this command.
pip install pyttsx3
If you’re using windows operating system then you also have to install “pypiwin32” to make it work. To install pypiwin32 again type this command and hit enter in command prompt.
python -m pip install pypiwin32
Make sure you’ve internet connection while running both of the command. It is one time process, after you’ve installed pyttsx3 now to use it, the program will be as shown below.
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import pyttsx3 engine = pyttsx3.init() engine.say("hello crazy programmer") engine.setProperty('rate',120) engine.setProperty('volume', 0.9) engine.runAndWait() |
In this program, in first Line we’re initializing pyttsx3 for use then we’re passing the text in method say(). After it we’re setting some properties like volume and rate of the voice. Here we’re passing 120 as rate, which means it will speak 120 words per minute and last line of above program will be produce an audio saying “hello crazy programmer”.
We can also modify the voice like we can change it into female voice (by default its male), age and language. For more information please visit http://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/engine.html
Method 2: Using gTTS (Google Text to Speech)
Google Text to Speech is one of the best TTS API out there, because it will generate audio as approximately similar to human voice while other APIs generate audio like a metallic voice or robotic voice. But there is also a disadvantage of gTTS, it will need an internet connection to convert the text into an audio. So it can be slow then other offline APIs.
To install gTTS API open your command prompt or terminal and type this command:
pip install gTTS
Program for conversion will be as shown below.
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from gtts import gTTS tts = gTTS(text="Hello crazy programmer", lang='en') tts.save("audio.mp3") |
Unlike other APIs it will generate an audio and will save into the same directory where your program stored.
To play this audio we’ll need another tool to play audio on command line.
If you’re using Linux (eg. Ubuntu) then mpg321 will be best command line player.
To install it open terminal and type this command-
sudo apt-get install mpg321
Now we can use this command to play any audio on command line:
mpg321 audio.mp3 -quiet
To run this command in python program, add these two lines into above program
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import os #will be on the top os.system('mpg321 audio.mp3 -quiet') |
On other hand, for windows, we doesn’t have to install any new software or API to play the mp3 file. All we have to do is open command prompt and enter the name of your file it will play that file using your default media player. So to run this command in python add these two lines in above program.
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import os #will be on the top os.system("audio.mp3") |
For more information on gTTS please visit https://pypi.org/project/gTTS/
Comment below if you have queries regarding python text to speech conversion.
pyttsx3 …. working good for me now.. gtts is slower because of my internet connection.. thanks
None of the above are working! pyttsx3 needs win32com and there is no suitable version for python 3.x.
Also, gTTS is now unavailable and does not install.
What to do????
both of them work on python 3.6
pyttsx3 is not working for me. Python version 3.7 and windows 10 64 bit.
Please help me.
create a new environment and install python version 3.6 or lower and then install the packages in that environment. it should work
Brother for Windows first you need to go terminal then write
pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio
pip install pyttsx3
What TTS API can i use that does not need internet to operate? Or how else can i use python to develop a text-to-speech that can work without offline?
Please please help am a student it is my project, a requirement for my graduation. I need it urgently.
The quality of sounds is like Robot and crappy in ubuntu, though good in windows. do you have any idea of how can I get it fixed in ubuntu?
how to display the following pattern? please help
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for x in range(1,6):
for y in range(0,x):
print(“*”,end=””)
#Above code will generate upper half triangle similar but inverse logic you can use for the lower half.
use multiple print statements
print(“*”)
print(“**”)
print(“***”)
print(“**”)
print(“*”)
How do I install these modules in sublime text 3 for python?
I have python 3.4 because of pyinstaler just suports python 3.4, and I get the next error when I try to install pytts3:
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)
I tried to install pypiwin32, and I get another error:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32; “win32” in sys_platform->pyttsx3) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32; “win32” in sys_platform->pyttsx3)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)
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