Text to speech
Text to speech¶
A simple and direct approach in Python to convert a text to synthetic speech.
It makes use of Googles gTTS. A simple code that can be modified is found below.
OS: Windows [Version 10.0.19041.685]
Python 3.8
Ref 1. https://gtts.readthedocs.io/
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#! pip install gtts
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from gtts import gTTS
import os
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myText = "the text to be converted to speech"
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language = 'en' # English in this case but several others are available
speech = gTTS(text=myText, lang=language, slow=False)
speech.save("speech.mp3")
os.system("start speech.mp3")
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