py3-tts 3.5

Text to Speech (TTS) library for Python 3. Works without internet connection or delay. Supports multiple TTS engines, including Sapi5, nsss, and espeak.

Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python

py3-tts (originally pyttsx3) is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.

Installation

pip install py3-tts

If you get installation errors, make sure you first upgrade your wheel version using

pip install --upgrade wheel

Linux installation requirements

• If you are on a linux system and if the voice output is not working,

  Install espeak, ffmpeg and libespeak1 as shown below

  sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak ffmpeg libespeak1
  

Features

• ✨Fully OFFLINE text to speech conversion
• 🎈 Choose among different voices installed in your system
• 🎛 Control speed/rate of speech
• 🎚 Tweak Volume
• 📀 Save the speech audio as a file
• ❤️ Simple, powerful, & intuitive API

Usage

import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("I will speak this text")
engine.runAndWait()

Single line usage with speak function with default options

import pyttsx3

pyttsx3.speak("I will speak this text")

Changing Voice, Rate and Volume

import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()  # object creation

""" RATE"""
rate = engine.getProperty('rate')  # getting details of current speaking rate
print(rate)  # printing current voice rate
engine.setProperty('rate', 125)  # setting up new voice rate

"""VOLUME"""
volume = engine.getProperty('volume')  # getting to know current volume level (min=0 and max=1)
print(volume)  # printing current volume level
engine.setProperty('volume', 1.0)  # setting up volume level  between 0 and 1

"""VOICE"""
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')  # getting details of current voice
# engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)  #changing index, changes voices. o for male
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)  # changing index, changes voices. 1 for female

engine.say("Hello World!")
engine.say('My current speaking rate is ' + str(rate))
engine.runAndWait()
engine.stop()

"""Saving Voice to a file"""
# On linux make sure that 'espeak' and 'ffmpeg' are installed
engine.save_to_file('Hello World', 'test.mp3')
engine.runAndWait()

Included TTS engines

• sapi5
• nsss
• espeak

Feel free to wrap another text-to-speech engine for use with pyttsx3.

Project Links

• PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/py3-tts/)
• GitHub (https://github.com/thevickypedia/py3-tts)
• Full Documentation (https://py3-tts.vigneshrao.com/)

Credits

nateshmbhat for the original code pyttsx3