py3-tts 3.5

Description:

py3tts 3.5

Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python










py3-tts (originally pyttsx3) is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.
Installation
pip install py3-tts


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,
Install espeak, ffmpeg and libespeak1 as shown below
sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak ffmpeg libespeak1



Features

✨Fully OFFLINE text to speech conversion
🎈 Choose among different voices installed in your system
🎛 Control speed/rate of speech
🎚 Tweak Volume
📀 Save the speech audio as a file
❤️ Simple, powerful, & intuitive API

Usage
import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("I will speak this text")
engine.runAndWait()

Single line usage with speak function with default options
import pyttsx3

pyttsx3.speak("I will speak this text")

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()

Included TTS engines

sapi5
nsss
espeak

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

PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/py3-tts/)
GitHub (https://github.com/thevickypedia/py3-tts)
Full Documentation (https://py3-tts.vigneshrao.com/)

Credits
nateshmbhat for the original code pyttsx3