pyttsx3

Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python

pyttsx3 is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.

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Installation :

pip install pyttsx3

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

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

Linux installation requirements :

• If you are on a Linux system and if the voice output is not working, then :

  Install espeak-ng and libespeak1 as shown below:

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  sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak-ng libespeak1

Usage :

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()

# For Mac, If you face error related to "pyobjc" when running the `init()` method :
# Install 9.0.1 version of pyobjc : "pip install pyobjc>=9.0.1"

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 :

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Full documentation of the Library

https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io

Included Text-To-Speech Engines by Operating System

[!NOTE]

• AVSpeechSynthesizer support is still experimental.
• NSSpeechSynthesizer is deprecated by Apple.

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

Project Links :

• PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/pyttsx3)
• GitHub (https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3)
• Full Documentation (https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.org)