pyttsx3 is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline, and is compatible with both Python 2 and 3.
Installation
pip install pyttsx3
> 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 , then :
Install espeak , ffmpeg and libespeak1 as shown below:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak ffmpeg libespeak1
Usage :
import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("I will speak this text")
engine.runAndWait()
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()
Full documentation of the Library
Included TTS engines:
sapi5
nsss
espeak
Feel free to wrap another text-to-speech engine for use with pyttsx3.
Project Links:
PyPI (https://pypi.python.org)
Full Documentation (https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.org)
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