How to make Python speak

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How could I make Python say some text   I could use Festival with subprocess but I won t be able to control it  or maybe in interactive mode  but it won t be clean    Is there a Python TTS library  Like an API for Festival  eSpeak

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I prefer to use the Google Text To Speech library because it has a more natural voice.

from gtts import gTTS
def speak(text):
  tts = gTTS(text=text, lang="en")
  filename = "voice.mp3"
  tts.save(filename)

There is one limitation. gTTS can only convert text to speech and save. So you will have to find another module or function to play that file. (Ex: playsound)

Playsound is a very simple module that has one function, which is to play sound.

import playsound
def play(filename):
  playsound.playsound(filename)

You can call playsound.playsound() directly after saving the mp3 file.

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A simple Google led me to pyTTS  and a few documents about it  It looks unmaintained and specific to Microsoft s speech engine  however   On at least Mac OS X  you can use subprocess to call out to the say command  which is quite fun for messing with your coworkers but might not be terribly useful for your needs   It sounds like Festival has a few public APIs  too   Festival offers a BSD socket-based interface  This allows Festival to run as a server and allow client programs to access it  Basically the server offers a new command interpreter for each client that attaches to it  The server is forked for each client but this is much faster than having to wait for a Festival process to start from scratch  Also the server can run on a bigger machine  offering much faster synthesis  linky  There s also a full-featured C   API  which you might be able to make a Python module out of  it s fun    Festival also offers a pared-down C API -- keep scrolling in that document -- which you might be able to throw ctypes at for a one-off   Perhaps you ve identified a hole in the market

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PYTTSX3  WHAT  Pyttsx3 is a python module which is a modern clone of pyttsx  modified to work perfectly well in the latest versions of Python 3   Python Package Index for downloads  https   pypi python org GitHub for source   bugs  and Q amp A  https   github com nateshmbhat pyttsx3 Read the Full documentation at  https   pyttsx3 readthedocs org  WHY  It is 100  MULTI-PLATFORM and WORKS OFFLINE and IS ACTIVE STILL BEING DEVELOPED and WORKS WITH ANY PYTHON VERSION HOW  It can be easily installed with pip install pyttsx3 and usage is the same as pyttsx  import pyttsx3  engine   pyttsx3 init    engine say  quot I will speak this text quot    engine runAndWait     This is the best multi platform option

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There are a number of ways to make Python speak in both Python3 and Python2  two great methods are    Using os   If you are on mac you will have the os module built into your computer  You can import the os module using   import os   You can then use os to run terminal commands using the os system command   os system  Your terminal     In terminal  the way you make your computer speak is using the  say  command  thus to make the computer speak you simply use   os system  say  some text      If you want to use this to speak a variable you can use   os system  say     myVariable    The second way to get python to speak is to use    The pyttsx module   You will have to install this using  pip isntall pyttsx3   or for Python3  pip3 install pyttsx3   You can then use the following code to get it to speak   import pyttsx3 engine   pyttsx3 init    engine say  Your Text    engine runAndWait     I hope this helps

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install pip install pypiwin32 How to use the text to speech features of a Windows PC from win32com client import Dispatch  speak   Dispatch  quot SAPI SpVoice quot   Speak  speak  quot Ciao quot    Using google text-to-speech Api to create an mp3 and hear it After you installed the gtts module in cmd  pip install gtts from gtts import gTTS import os      tts   gTTS text  quot This is the pc speaking quot   lang  en   tts save  quot pcvoice mp3 quot     to start the file from python os system  quot start pcvoice mp3 quot

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There may not be anything  Python specific   but the KDE and GNOME desktops offer text-to-speech as a part of their accessibility support  and also offer python library bindings   It may be possible to use the python bindings to control the desktop libraries for text to speech   If using the Jython implementation of Python on the JVM  the FreeTTS system may be usable   Finally  OSX and Windows have native APIs for text to speech  It may be possible to use these from python via ctypes or other mechanisms such as COM

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Please note that this only work with python 2 x  You should try using the PyTTSx package since PyTTS is outdated  PyTTSx works with the lastest python version    http   pypi python org pypi pyttsx 1 0 -  The package  Hope it helps

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Just use this simple code in python  Works only for windows OS  from win32com client import Dispatch  def speak text       speak   Dispatch  quot SAPI Spvoice quot       speak Speak text   speak  quot How are you dugres  quot    I personally use this

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A bit cheesy  but if you use a mac you can pass a terminal command to the console from python    Try typing the following in the terminal     say  hello world     And there will be a voice from the mac that will speak that  From python such a thing is relatively easy    import os os system  echo  hello world    os system  say  hello world

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If you are using python 3 and windows 10  the best solution that I found to be working is from Giovanni Gianni  This played for me in the male voice   import win32com client as wincl speak   wincl Dispatch  SAPI SpVoice   speak Speak  This is the pc voice speaking     I also found this video on youtube so if you really want to  you can get someone you know and make your own DIY tts voice

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The python-espeak package is available in Debian  Ubuntu  Redhat  and other Linux distributions   It has recent updates  and works fine   from espeak import espeak espeak synth  Hello world      Jonathan Leaders notes that it also works on Windows  and you can install the mbrola voices as well  See the espeak website at http   espeak sourceforge net

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You can use espeak using python for text to speech converter  Here is an example python code       from subprocess import call     speech  Hello World       call   espeak  speech     P S   if espeak isn t installed on your linux system then you need to install it first  Open terminal using ctrl   alt   T  and type       sudo apt install espeak

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Combining the following sources  the following code works on Windows  Linux and macOS using just the platform and os modules    cantdutchthis  answer for the mac command natka m s comment for the Ubuntu command BananaAcid s answer for the Windows command Louis Brandy s answer for how to detect the OS nc3b s answer for how to detect the Linux distribution   tx   input  Text to say  gt  gt  gt     tx   repr tx   import os import platform  syst   platform system   if syst     Linux  and platform linux distribution   0      Ubuntu       os system  spd-say  s    tx  elif syst     Windows       os system  PowerShell -Command  Add-Type    AssemblyName System Speech   New-Object System Speech Synthesis SpeechSynthesizer  Speak  s       tx  elif syst     Darwin       os system  say  s    tx  else      raise RuntimeError  Operating System   s  is not supported    syst    Note  This method is not secure and could be exploited by malicious text

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This is what you are looking for  A complete TTS solution for the Mac   You can use this standalone or as a co-location Mac server for web apps   http   wolfpaulus com jounal mac ttsserver

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