rlvoice-1 1.3.4

Description:

rlvoice1 1.3.4

Credits to nateshmbhat for creating the original library pyttsx3.
Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python
RLVoice is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.
Installation :
pip install rlvoice-1


If you get installation errors , make sure you first upgrade your wheel version using :
pip install --upgrade wheel


DO NOT USE pip install rlvoice, make sure you add the -1 next to it, or it will download the wrong package.

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



OS X installation requirements :


If you are on a MacOS system and if you get an error such as NameError: name 'objc' is not defined. Did you mean: 'object'? , then :
Install the pyobjc library as shown below:
pip install pyobjc==9.0.1



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 rlvoice

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

Single line usage with speak function with default options
import rlvoice

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

Changing Voice , Rate and Volume :
import rlvoice

engine = rlvoice.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 is located in the docs folder.
Included TTS engines:

sapi5
nsss
espeak
coqui_ai_tts

Feel free to wrap another text-to-speech engine for use with rlvoice-1.
Project Links :

PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/rlvoice-1)
GitHub (https://github.com/Akul-AI/rlvoice-1)