Introduction#

How to Convert text to speech using Google Text-to-Speech (gTTS) library?

This is a simple python script to convert text to speech using Google Text-to-Speech (gTTS) library.

gTTS#

gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech), a Python library and CLI tool to interface with Google Translate’s > text-to-speech API. Writes spoken mp3 data to a file, a file-like object (bytestring) for further > audio manipulation, or stdout. It features flexible pre-processing and tokenizing. Read More

Python: requirements.txt#

gTTS==2.2.3
playsound==1.3.0
PyPDF2==1.26.0

Installation#

pip install -r requirements.txt

Convert Text to Speech: helloTxt.py#

# import dependencies
import os
from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound
outputFile='helloGTTS.mp3'
# convert text to speech
helloTxt="Hello Everyone! This is Bhuwan Prasad Upadhyay! Welcome to Convert Text To Speech using GTTS Library"
language='en'
helloGTTS=gTTS(text=helloTxt,lang=language,slow=False)
if os.path.exists(outputFile):
  os.remove(outputFile)
else:
  print("The file does not exist")
# write mp3 file
helloGTTS.save(outputFile)
# play mp3
playsound(outputFile)

To run:

python3 helloTxt.py

Convert PDF Text to Speech: pdfTxt.py#

# import dependencies
import io
import PyPDF2
import os
from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound
inputFile='paper.pdf'
outputFile='pdfGTTS.mp3'
# read pdf as string
pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(str(inputFile))
buf = io.StringIO()
for page in pdf.pages:
    buf.write(page.extractText())
# convert text to speech
pdfTxt=buf.getvalue()
language='en'
pdfGTTS=gTTS(text=pdfTxt,lang=language,slow=False)
# delete if file exits
if os.path.exists(outputFile):
  os.remove(outputFile)
else:
  print("The file does not exist")
# write mp3 file
pdfGTTS.save(outputFile)
# play mp3
playsound(outputFile)

To run:

python3 pdfTxt.py

Github Source#