There are several APIs available to convert text to speech in Python. One of such APIs is the Google Text to Speech API commonly known as the gTTS API. gTTS is a very easy to use tool which converts the text entered, into audio which can be saved as a mp3 file.
The gTTS API supports several languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, French, German and many more. The speech can be delivered in any one of the two available audio speeds, fast or slow. However, as of the latest update, it is not possible to change the voice of the generated audio.
Installation
To install the gTTS API, open terminal and write
pip install gTTS
This works for any platform.
Now we are all set to write a sample program that converts text to speech.
# Import the required module for text # to speech conversion from gtts import gTTS # This module is imported so that we can # play the converted audio import os # The text that you want to convert to audio mytext = 'Welcome to neveropen!' # Language in which you want to convert language = 'en' # Passing the text and language to the engine, # here we have marked slow=False. Which tells # the module that the converted audio should # have a high speed myobj = gTTS(text=mytext, lang=language, slow=False) # Saving the converted audio in a mp3 file named # welcome myobj.save("welcome.mp3") # Playing the converted file os.system("mpg321 welcome.mp3") |
Output
The output of the above program should be a voice saying, 'Welcome to neveropen!'
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