{"id":12589,"date":"2023-04-18T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2023-11-19T19:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:03:01","slug":"text-to-speech-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/text-to-speech-with-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Text to speech with Python without saving files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This script makes you speak the pc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">from gtts import gTTS\nfrom io import BytesIO\nimport pygame\nimport time\n\n\ndef wait():\n    while pygame.mixer.get_busy():\n        time.sleep(1)\n\n\ndef speak(text, language='en'):\n    ''' speaks without saving the audio file '''\n    mp3_fo = BytesIO()\n    tts = gTTS(text, lang=language)\n    tts.write_to_fp(mp3_fo)\n    mp3_fo.seek(0)\n    sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(mp3_fo)\n    sound.play()\n    wait()\n\ndef speaksave(text, language='en'):\n    ''' saves the audio file and then speaks '''\n    tts = gTTS(text, lang=language)\n    tts.save(\"myfile.mp3\")\n    sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(\"myfile.mp3\")\n    sound.play()\n    wait()\n\n\npygame.init()\npygame.mixer.init()\nspeaksave(\"This audio is saved as myfile.mp3, look in the folder\")\nspeak(\"This audio is not saved\")\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let&#8217;s make some more choices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here you can choose to hear the words without saving them, saving them in different files, one for each row, or saving all the text in one audio file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">from gtts import gTTS\nfrom io import BytesIO\nimport pygame\nimport time\n\n\ndef wait():\n    while pygame.mixer.get_busy():\n        time.sleep(.1)\n\n\ndef process_speak(text=\"\", language='en'):\n    ''' speaks without saving the audio file '''\n    wait()\n    mp3_fo = BytesIO()\n    tts = gTTS(text, lang=language)\n    tts.write_to_fp(mp3_fo)\n    mp3_fo.seek(0)\n    sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(mp3_fo)\n    sound.play()\n    wait()\n\ndef save_(name=\"myfile\", text=\"\", language='en'):\n    ''' saves the audio file and then speaks '''\n    global filecount\n\n    tts = gTTS(text, lang=language)\n    tts.save(f\"{name}{filecount}.mp3\")\n    sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(f\"{name}{filecount}.mp3\")\n    filecount+=1\n    sound.play()\n    wait()\n\ndef save_file(name=\"myfile\", text=\"\", language='en'):\n    ''' saves the audio file and then speaks '''\n    global filecount\n    text = \",\".join(text)\n    tts = gTTS(text, lang=language)\n    tts.save(f\"{name}{filecount}.mp3\")\n    sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(f\"{name}{filecount}.mp3\")\n    sound.play()\n    wait()\n\ndef speak(text: list or str):\n    ''' use speak as many lines are there into text '''\n    if type(text) == list:\n        for t in text:\n            process_speak(t)\n    elif type(text) == str:\n        process_speak(text)\n\ndef save(text):\n    for t in text:\n        save_(\"myfile\", t)\nfilecount = 0\n\n\ndef examples():\n    global text\n    guide = f\"\"\"\n    {text=}\n    Examples:\n        speak(\"A simple text\")\n        speak(text) # 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