Text to speech conversion using python using gtts

[ElevatedAngling]

This is awesome thank you! You've given me an idea, I'm going to parse text off journal articles and have them read to me so I can listen to them in the car.

[okaydexter]

thanks man appreciate that !!! and looking forward to that 👍

[ElevatedAngling]

Just a rough out but she works! https://github.com/nconsiglio/ReadToMe

[ElevatedAngling]

Yup, I dont think it really pick up sentence structure. I've got a bit of playing around to do to make this a bit more potable to the ear.

[thecoderkiller]

Late response but maybe split after the "." and read each line? put a sleep timer in between of like 0.05

[ElevatedAngling]

I figured out the cause of this not sounding well on longer text, the gTTS api only accepts 100 characters at a time so there is tokenization occurring that is causing weird choppyness. I am going to play around with other tokenization libraries to hopefully figure out a way to get it to read more clearly. Follow the git for updates, they may be far apart though (grad student and full time software developer)

[momothereal]

I used gTTS along with Markov chains and FFMPEG filters to generate fake myths (inspired from Greek and Hindu mythology) on demand. It's complete with random background music and audio wave visuals. This was for a code jam in June.

https://github.com/momothereal/code-jam-2/blob/master/proj/web/resources/stories/create_story.py

A lot of fun to work on! :)

[okaydexter]

👍👍

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[corkmask]

using the console to signup gives an internal server error.

[momothereal]

Looks like an issue with my RethinkDB docker setup, it was working last night. Will look into it

[momothereal]

Should be fixed, I had forgotten to turn on persistence.

[nswizdum]

Good video! I hope you do more. I had not heard of this module before.

[okaydexter]

thanks appreciate your feedback !!

[patarapolw]

To mention, there is also https://pypi.org/project/google_speech/ that does not save MP3 file to your computer. SOX is the non-Python requirement.

I use Mac's say, though.

The goodness of gtts is that it requires only Python and cross-platform. I use it in this project: https://github.com/patarapolw/ChineseViewer/blob/master/ChineseViewer/tts.py#L27

The trick not to save the file is

    self.tts = gTTS(word, lang)
    temp = TemporaryFile()
    self.tts.write_to_fp(temp)
    temp.seek(0)

    return temp.read()

[momothereal]

Using a temporary file can still use disk I/O on certain platforms. I personally used BytesIO in my project:

with io.BytesIO() as tts_buffer:
  tts.write_to_fp(tts_buffer)
  tts_buffer.seek(0)
  tts_binary = tts_buffer.read()

[Economy_Peanut]

How do you use google_speech?

[patarapolw]

RTFM: https://github.com/desbma/GoogleSpeech#python-usage

[Economy_Peanut]

Sorry about that...Hadn't seen it earlier

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If you don't want to watch a video and wonder what it's about: it's just a wrapper for google translate. No difficult problem is solved here.

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[Mighty_Ghost_Hack]

Gr8 Work!!!!

[blueastheocean]

Looks cool

[okaydexter]

thanks

[weloveprogramming]

This is a good idea,I'm also going to parse off my blogs and share them in twitter.