speech 0.4.9

A clean interface to Windows speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities.

Allows your Windows python program to:

• execute a callback when certain phrases are heard

• execute a callback when any understandable text is heard

• have different callbacks for different groups of phrases

• convert text to speech.

Example

Showing speaking out loud and listening for all recognizable words.

import speech
import time

def callback(phrase, listener):
    if phrase == "goodbye":
        listener.stoplistening()
    speech.say(phrase)

listener = speech.listenforanything(callback)
while listener.islistening():
    time.sleep(.5)

Requirements

Requires Windows XP or Vista, and Python 2.4 or 2.5.

In addition to easy_installing speech.py, you’ll need pywin32 (for Python 2.5 or 2.4) and the Microsoft Speech kit (installer here).

Resources

• Homepage: http://pyspeech.googlecode.com/

• Source:

  • Browse at http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/source/browse/trunk/

  • Get with svn co http://pyspeech.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pyspeech-read-only

Please let me know if you like or use this module - it would make my day!