gTTS

gTTS (Google Text to Speech): a Python interface for Google's Text to Speech API. Create an mp3 file with the gTTS module or gtts-cli command line utility. It allows unlimited lengths to be spoken by tokenizing long sentences where the speech would naturally pause.

Install

pip install gTTS

Usage

You may either use gTTS as a python module or as a command-line utility

A. Module

1. Import gTTS

>> from gtts import gTTS

2. Create an instance

>> tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en', slow=True)

Parameters:

• text - String - Text to be spoken.
• lang - String - ISO 639-1 language code (supported by the Google Text to Speech API) to speak in.
• slow - Boolean - Speak slowly. Default False (Note: only two speeds are provided by the API).

3. Write to a file

• To disk using save(file_name)

>> tts.save("hello.mp3")

• To a file pointer using write_to_fp(file_object)

>> f = TemporaryFile()
>> tts.write_to_fp(f)
>> # <Do something with f>
>> f.close()

B. Command line utility

Command

gtts-cli.py [-h] (["text to speak"] | -f FILE) [-l LANG] [--slow] [--debug] [-o destination_file]

Example:

$ # Read the string 'Hello' in English to hello.mp3
$ gtts-cli "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3

$ # Read the string 'Hello' in English (slow speed) to hello.mp3
$ gtts-cli "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3 --slow

$ # Read the contents of file 'hello.txt' in Czech to hello.mp3:
$ gtts-cli -f hello.txt -l 'cs' -o hello.mp3

$ # Read the string 'Hello' from stdin in English to hello.mp3
$ echo "Hello" | gtts-cli -l 'en' -o hello.mp3 -

Supported Languages

• 'af' : 'Afrikaans'
• 'sq' : 'Albanian'
• 'ar' : 'Arabic'
• 'hy' : 'Armenian'
• 'bn' : 'Bengali'
• 'ca' : 'Catalan'
• 'zh' : 'Chinese'
• 'zh-cn' : 'Chinese (Mandarin/China)'
• 'zh-tw' : 'Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)'
• 'zh-yue' : 'Chinese (Cantonese)'
• 'hr' : 'Croatian'
• 'cs' : 'Czech'
• 'da' : 'Danish'
• 'nl' : 'Dutch'
• 'en' : 'English'
• 'en-au' : 'English (Australia)'
• 'en-uk' : 'English (United Kingdom)'
• 'en-us' : 'English (United States)'
• 'eo' : 'Esperanto'
• 'fi' : 'Finnish'
• 'fr' : 'French'
• 'de' : 'German'
• 'el' : 'Greek'
• 'hi' : 'Hindi'
• 'hu' : 'Hungarian'
• 'is' : 'Icelandic'
• 'id' : 'Indonesian'
• 'it' : 'Italian'
• 'ja' : 'Japanese'
• 'km' : 'Khmer (Cambodian)'
• 'ko' : 'Korean'
• 'la' : 'Latin'
• 'lv' : 'Latvian'
• 'mk' : 'Macedonian'
• 'no' : 'Norwegian'
• 'pl' : 'Polish'
• 'pt' : 'Portuguese'
• 'ro' : 'Romanian'
• 'ru' : 'Russian'
• 'sr' : 'Serbian'
• 'si' : 'Sinhala'
• 'sk' : 'Slovak'
• 'es' : 'Spanish'
• 'es-es' : 'Spanish (Spain)'
• 'es-us' : 'Spanish (United States)'
• 'sw' : 'Swahili'
• 'sv' : 'Swedish'
• 'ta' : 'Tamil'
• 'th' : 'Thai'
• 'tr' : 'Turkish'
• 'uk' : 'Ukrainian'
• 'vi' : 'Vietnamese'
• 'cy' : 'Welsh'

Contributing

1. Fork pndurette/gTTS on GitHub and clone it locally
2. Make sure you write tests for new features or modify the existing ones if necessary
3. Open a new Pull Request from your feature branch to the master branch.
4. Thank you!