Google-Text-To-Speech

A python script for using Google's text to speech feature to save text to an MP3 file.

usage: GoogleTextToSpeech.py [-h] [-o [OUTPUT]] [-l [LANGUAGE]]
                    (-f FILE | -s STRING [STRING ...])

Google Text To Speech.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o [OUTPUT], --output [OUTPUT]
                        Filename to output audio to
  -l [LANGUAGE], --language [LANGUAGE]
                        Language to output text to.
  -f FILE, --file FILE  File to read text from.
  -s STRING [STRING ...], --string STRING [STRING ...]
                        A string of text to convert to speech.
  -p, --play            Play the speech if your computer allows it.

Examples

To convert text from a file:

$ python GoogleTextToSpeech.py -f text.txt

To convert text from the commandline:

$ python GoogleTextToSpeech.py -l en -o audio.mp3 -s "hello world"

To convert text and play the mp3 audio

$ python GoogleTextToSpeech.py -l en -s "hello world" -p

Requierments

Audio

To play the mp3 you need to have some packages installed on your system.

Linux

For Linux, the script is using the play command included in the sox package.

In case the sox package is not installed on your system:

$ sudo aptitude install sox

You may also need to install extra packages to gain support for MP3

$ sudo aptitude install libsox-fmt-mp3

Mac

For Mac, the script is using the afplay command which should already been installed on your system.

Thanks

Many thanks to Hung Truong (http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/) who helped me to build this Python script. First for given me the clue to send more than 100 characters for a mp3 and secondly for the Pyhton lessons I learned from his own scripts.