gTTS

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

Install

pip install gTTS

Module

Instanciate:

>> from gtts import gTTS
>> tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
>> tts.save("hello.mp3")

Parameters:

• text is the text to speak to file;
• lang is the language to speak in. A ISO 639-1 language code supported by the Google Text to Speech API.

Using a file-like object (Ex.):

>> from gtts import gTTS
>> from tempfile import TemporaryFile
>> tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
>> f = TemporaryFile()
>> tts.write_to_fp(f)
>> f.close()

Command line utility

Invoke gtts-cli:

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

(Ex.) Read the string 'Hello' in English to hello.mp3

$ gtts-cli.py "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3

(Ex.) Read the contents of file 'hello.txt' in Czech to hello.mp3:

$ gtts-cli.py -f hello.txt -l 'cs' -o hello.mp3

Supported Languages

• 'af' : 'Afrikaans'
• 'sq' : 'Albanian'
• 'ar' : 'Arabic'
• 'hy' : 'Armenian'
• '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'
• 'ht' : 'Haitian Creole'
• 'hi' : 'Hindi'
• 'hu' : 'Hungarian'
• 'is' : 'Icelandic'
• 'id' : 'Indonesian'
• 'it' : 'Italian'
• 'ja' : 'Japanese'
• 'ko' : 'Korean'
• 'la' : 'Latin'
• 'lv' : 'Latvian'
• 'mk' : 'Macedonian'
• 'no' : 'Norwegian'
• 'pl' : 'Polish'
• 'pt' : 'Portuguese'
• 'pt-br' : 'Portuguese (Brazil)'
• 'ro' : 'Romanian'
• 'ru' : 'Russian'
• 'sr' : 'Serbian'
• 'sk' : 'Slovak'
• 'es' : 'Spanish'
• 'es-es' : 'Spanish (Spain)'
• 'es-us' : 'Spanish (United States)'
• 'sw' : 'Swahili'
• 'sv' : 'Swedish'
• 'ta' : 'Tamil'
• 'th' : 'Thai'
• 'tr' : 'Turkish'
• '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 develop branch.
4. Thank you!