In this tutorial, we will learn how to convert text into human-like speech.
This might be useful when you don’t want to read a document but want to listen to it instead. Also, some more advanced text-to-speech tools can be used to create a realistic voice for videos, ads, or podcasts.
To get started, let’s install the required module:
pip3 install gTTS pyttsx3 playsound
As you may guess, gTTS stands for Google Text To Speech, it is a Python library to interface with Google Translate’s text to speech API. It requires an Internet connection, and it’s pretty easy to use.
# Import the gTTS module for text to speech conversion
# and playsound for playing the converted audio file
from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound
# Here we are entering a text that we want to convert into audio
text_val = input('Enter or paste the text you want to be converted: ')
# Here we are choosing the language
language = input('''Choose the language:
EN for English
ES for Spanish
DE for German
IT for Italian
FR for French
JA for Japanese
PT for Portuguese
HR for Croatian
''').lower()
# Choosing a file name for the new converted audio file
file_name = input('Please name your file:')
# Passing the text and language to the engine
obj = gTTS(text=text_val, lang=language)
# Here we are saving the transformed audio file
obj.save(file_name+'.mp3')
# Playing the converted audio file
playsound(file_name+'.mp3')
Here are the supported languages:
{'af': 'Afrikaans', 'sq': 'Albanian', 'ar': 'Arabic', 'hy': 'Armenian', 'bn': 'Bengali', 'bs': 'Bosnian', 'ca': 'Catalan', 'hr': 'Croatian', 'cs': 'Czech', 'da': 'Danish', 'nl': 'Dutch', 'en': 'English', 'eo': 'Esperanto', 'et': 'Estonian', 'tl': 'Filipino', 'fi': 'Finnish', 'fr': 'French', 'de': 'German', 'el': 'Greek', 'gu': 'Gujarati', 'hi': 'Hindi', 'hu': 'Hungarian', 'is': 'Icelandic', 'id': 'Indonesian', 'it': 'Italian', 'ja': 'Japanese', 'jw': 'Javanese', 'kn': 'Kannada', 'km': 'Khmer', 'ko': 'Korean', 'la': 'Latin', 'lv': 'Latvian', 'mk': 'Macedonian', 'ml': 'Malayalam', 'mr':
'Marathi', 'my': 'Myanmar (Burmese)', 'ne': 'Nepali', 'no': 'Norwegian', 'pl': 'Polish', 'pt': 'Portuguese', 'ro': 'Romanian', 'ru': 'Russian', 'sr': 'Serbian', 'si': 'Sinhala', 'sk': 'Slovak', 'es': 'Spanish', 'su': 'Sundanese', 'sw': 'Swahili', 'sv': 'Swedish', 'ta': 'Tamil', 'te': 'Telugu', 'th': 'Thai', 'tr': 'Turkish', 'uk': 'Ukrainian', 'ur': 'Urdu', 'vi': 'Vietnamese', 'cy': 'Welsh', 'zh-cn': 'Chinese (Mandarin/China)', 'zh-tw': 'Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)', 'en-us': 'English (US)', 'en-ca': 'English (Canada)', 'en-uk': 'English (UK)', 'en-gb': 'English (UK)', 'en-au': 'English (Australia)', 'en-gh': 'English (Ghana)', 'en-in': 'English (India)', 'en-ie': 'English (Ireland)', 'en-nz': 'English (New Zealand)', 'en-ng': 'English (Nigeria)', 'en-ph': 'English (Philippines)', 'en-za': 'English (South Africa)', 'en-tz': 'English (Tanzania)', 'fr-ca': 'French (Canada)', 'fr-fr': 'French (France)', 'pt-br': 'Portuguese (Brazil)', 'pt-pt': 'Portuguese (Portugal)', 'es-es': 'Spanish (Spain)', 'es-us': 'Spanish (United States)'}
