python-msspeak 0.5.0

Text-To-Speech with MSSpeak

Author:

Arezqui Belaid and Joshua Patten

Description:

Microsoft Translator API module for Python

Documentation:

RTD https://python-msspeak.readthedocs.org

Contributors:

https://github.com/newfies-dialer/python-msspeak/graphs/contributors

License:

MIT

Microsoft Speech Bing Documentation: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speech-api/documentation/API-Reference-REST/BingVoiceOutput

Python Bing Speech

python-msspeak is a library to synthesize text into human sounding speech using Microsoft Cognitive Services.

In order to utilize this service you must sign up for Microsoft Cognitive service and register an application. More information on creating a Microsoft account is located at the getting started with Text to Speech page.

Quickstart

A quick-and-dirty script to utilize the python-msspeak library.

import msspeak

subscription_key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'

tts_msspeak = msspeak.MSSpeak(subscription_key, '/tmp/')
output_filename = tts_msspeak.speak("This is the text I will speak to you", "en-US")

print "Recorded TTS to %s" % output_filename

Installation

Install, upgrade and uninstall python-msspeak.py with these commands:

$ pip install python-msspeak
$ pip install --upgrade python-msspeak
$ pip uninstall python-msspeak

Example usage and output

Usage:

$ python-msspeak --subscription_key=<subscription_key> -t <text> [-d <directory>] [-url <service_url>] [-h]

Example:

$ msspeak --subscription_key=XXXXXXXXX -t "Salut, Vous vous appelez comment?" -l fr

Output :

$ Recorded TTS to /tmp/MSTRANSLATE-8895934760117809679-fr.mp3

Feedback

Feedback are more than welcome, post bugs and feature requests on github: http://github.com/newfies-dialer/python-msspeak/issues

Extra information

Newfies-Dialer, an open source Auto Dialer software, uses this module to synthetize audio files being play to the end-user. Further information about Newfies-Dialer can be found at https://www.newfies-dialer.org

This module is built and supported by Star2Billing: https://www.star2billing.com

Source download

The source code is currently available on github. Fork away!

https://github.com/newfies-dialer/python-msspeak

Other libraries

• Javascript: https://github.com/nanek/mstranslator

• Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mstranslator

• Python: https://github.com/bebound/Python-Microsoft-Translate-API

TODO

• [ ] Rename package to python-bing-speech

History

0.2.1 (2017-03-03)

• Support Python 3

0.2.0 (2017-02-21)

• Support switch to Azure portal

1.1.4 (2017-01-20)

• fix request deps don’t force single version

0.1.1 (2015-10-08)

• Improve Readme and add script to updateversion

0.1.0 (2015-10-06)

• First release on PyPI.