Skip to main content

pyttsx3 (offline TTS for Python 3)

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

https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Included TTS engines:

  • sapi5

  • nsss

  • espeak

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

Metadata

Release files for pyttsx3 2.98

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for pyttsx3 2.98
File Size Uploaded
pyttsx3-2.98.tar.gz 32.1 kB Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for pyttsx3 2.98
File Interpreter ABI Platform
pyttsx3-2.98-py3-none-any.whl Python 3 none any Details

Total release size: 66.8 kB

Release files / pyttsx3-2.98.tar.gz

Download URL pyttsx3-2.98.tar.gz
Size 32.1 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
cc609466151d8c4a69c1c765a945f893c00c1fd2569c2db55e17dc22121e9162
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
be2b490f7d3fbbfa6e29959351fd4d84c570bc319eaa0570e6abc5d1ce2b7392
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
Yes
Uploaded via twine/5.1.1 CPython/3.12.6

Release files / pyttsx3-2.98-py3-none-any.whl

Download URL pyttsx3-2.98-py3-none-any.whl
Size 34.8 kB
Tags Python 3
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
b3fb4ca4d5ae4f8e6836d6b37bf5fee0fd51d157ffa27fb9064be6e7be3da37a
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
94dfe1584757c736c4fba09a3fb4f22fe625cc3367b06c6ece221e4b8c1e3023
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
Yes
Uploaded via twine/5.1.1 CPython/3.12.6

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

2.99

2 release files

This release

2.98 This release

2 release files

2.97

2 release files

2.95

2 release files

2.92

2 release files

2.91

2 release files

2.90

1 release file

2.88

1 release file

2.87

1 release file

2.86

1 release file

2.84

1 release file

2.83

1 release file

2.81

1 release file

2.80

1 release file

2.71

1 release file

2.9

1 release file

2.8

1 release file

2.7

2 release files

2.6

1 release file

2.5

1 release file

1.15

1 release file

1.14

1 release file

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page