Pytońska treść do mowy – Polish text to speech
Project description
PyTDM
ie. Pytońska treść do mowy which is Polish for Python Text To Speech. Both for standard python and for iOS (iOS version is in the pythonista
directory on github)
ok but why
This lil library was designed in order to assure that people programming for Pollacks have some sort of a offline-working text to speech python software.
For english speaking people there already is the pyttsx3
library which provides such functionalities.
If you want your programme to talk you simply run few commands
import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("now we're talkin'")
engine.runAndWait()
and it's literally that easy! But for Polish there was no such thing. Until now.
installation
it is avalaible on PyPI! you can just run:
pip install pytdm
and you can use it just like that!
how it's made
It's based on the same pyttsx3
package I've just mentioned. The thing is that contrary to what many English speaking people think (looking at u americans) Polish actually is pronounceable for someone knowing English.
What PyTDM
does is
- first it translates* the given polish string/text into english
- then it gets pronounced with the
pyttsx3
The asterisk above next to the word "translates" is there for a reason – it's not exactly translation. More like transcription or transliteration. We shall get back to that later
usage
An example for how well does the software work with approxima... translation of polish words is to be seen in the demo.py
file (avalaible on my github). You just can run it and then see how well it handles the most sacred polish song (actually the second sacred-est. For the most sacred one see barka.py
(both demo files are in the demo
directory but you should run them in the same directory mowa.py
is)) – the anthem of the third republic of Poland.
But just for simple basic stuff you should do it as follows:
import pytdm
pytdm.mów("dzień dobry, dobranoc")
or the old way:
from pytdm import mowa
mowa.mów("dzień dobry, dobranoc")
and then you can happily listen to the sweet sound of the polish language spoken by the pyttsx3
synthesiser guy. Isn't that great?
dependencies
all you need are built-in packages like re
and apart from that the pyttsx3
package avalaible on pypi.
what OS?
The only problem is it's different for every OS. Eg windows is stoopid (per usual) and reads 'ch' as /k/ and not /t͡ʃ/. For all I know it works best on iOS but I lack enough feedback to know whether it is fine on Linux and what other issues are there when using windows (+ I highly discourage everyone from using windows. like at all).
iOS
for iOS see the pythonista
directory. Everything there is the iOS version of PyTDM
Function names are weird?
As a cautious reader might have noticed the main speaking function is mów
(fyi it means say just like in the pyttsx3
). One could ask wthell? or more properly co do diabła? but that is exactly how the package was intended to be: the functions have polish names. Deal with it.
behind the scenes
Now for some calrification about how the so called translation process actually works.
For every word passed to the mów
function it is first tanslated by another polish-named func tłumacz
(ie. translate) and it calls 2 more functions first:
repolonizuj
ie. repolonise – it deals with all the weird polish ortographic stuff like the diagraphs, some consonants being devoiced etcanglicyzuj
ie. anglicise – it takes the repolonised text and tries to find the closes approximations for all the sounds that are to be found.
only then mów
gives the anglicised repolonised text to the engine.say
as shown above.
So when you do something like mów('czuję, że będzie dziś dość średni dzień')
it first calls tłumacz
which calls repolonizuj
that returns this simplified polish text:
'czuje, że bendźe dźiś dość średni dźen'
and it is passed to the anglicyzuj
which gives the final result to be said by pyttsx3
:
'choo yeah, zsheh behnjeh jeesh dawshtch shrehdnee jehn'
it sure is amazing
TO DO
- saving mp3
- polish the Polish
- implement pronouncing numbers above 199
- extend this list
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