gTTS
gTTS (Google Text to Speech): a Python interface to Google’s Text to Speech API. Create an mp3 file with the gTTS module or gtts-cli command line utility. It allows for unlimited lengths of spoken text by tokenizing long sentences where the speech would naturally pause.
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Install
pip install gTTS
Module
Instanciate:
>> from gtts import gTTS >> tts = gTTS(text=’Hello’, lang=’en’) >> tts.save(“hello.mp3”)
Parameters:
text is the text to speak to file;
lang is the language to speak in. A ISO 639-1 language code supported by the Google Text to Speech API.
Using a file-like object (Ex.):
>> from gtts import gTTS >> from tempfile import TemporaryFile >> tts = gTTS(text=’Hello’, lang=’en’) >> f = TemporaryFile() >> tts.write_to_fp(f) >> f.close()
Command line utility
Invoke gtts-cli:
gtts-cli.py –help usage: gtts-cli.py [-h] ([“text to speak”] | -f FILE) [-l LANG] [–debug] [-o destination_file]
(Ex.) Read the string ‘Hello’ in English to hello.mp3
$ gtts-cli.py “Hello” -l ‘en’ -o hello.mp3
(Ex.) Read the contents of file ‘hello.txt’ in Czech to hello.mp3:
$ gtts-cli.py -f hello.txt -l ‘cs’ -o hello.mp3
Supported Languages
‘af’ : ‘Afrikaans’
‘sq’ : ‘Albanian’
‘ar’ : ‘Arabic’
‘hy’ : ‘Armenian’
‘ca’ : ‘Catalan’
‘zh’ : ‘Chinese’,
‘zh-cn’ : ‘Chinese (Mandarin/China)’
‘zh-tw’ : ‘Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)’
‘zh-yue’ : ‘Chinese (Cantonese)’
‘hr’ : ‘Croatian’
‘cs’ : ‘Czech’
‘da’ : ‘Danish’
‘nl’ : ‘Dutch’
‘en’ : ‘English’
‘en-au’ : ‘English (Australia)’
‘en-uk’ : ‘English (United Kingdom)’
‘en-us’ : ‘English (United States)’
‘eo’ : ‘Esperanto’
‘fi’ : ‘Finnish’
‘fr’ : ‘French’
‘de’ : ‘German’
‘el’ : ‘Greek’
‘ht’ : ‘Haitian Creole’
‘hi’ : ‘Hindi’
‘hu’ : ‘Hungarian’
‘is’ : ‘Icelandic’
‘id’ : ‘Indonesian’
‘it’ : ‘Italian’
‘ja’ : ‘Japanese’
‘ko’ : ‘Korean’
‘la’ : ‘Latin’
‘lv’ : ‘Latvian’
‘mk’ : ‘Macedonian’
‘no’ : ‘Norwegian’
‘pl’ : ‘Polish’
‘pt’ : ‘Portuguese’
‘pt-br’ : ‘Portuguese (Brazil)’
‘ro’ : ‘Romanian’
‘ru’ : ‘Russian’
‘sr’ : ‘Serbian’
‘sk’ : ‘Slovak’
‘es’ : ‘Spanish’
‘es-es’ : ‘Spanish (Spain)’
‘es-us’ : ‘Spanish (United States)’
‘sw’ : ‘Swahili’
‘sv’ : ‘Swedish’
‘ta’ : ‘Tamil’
‘th’ : ‘Thai’
‘tr’ : ‘Turkish’
‘vi’ : ‘Vietnamese’
‘cy’ : ‘Welsh’
Contributing
Fork [pndurette/gTTS](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS) on GitHub and clone it locally
Make sure you write tests for new features or modify the existing ones if necessary
Open a new Pull Request from your feature branch to the develop branch.
Thank you!
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