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.
pip install gTTS
Instanciate:
>> from gtts import gTTS
>> tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
>> tts.save("hello.mp3")
Parameters:
textis the text to speak to file;langis the language to speak in. A ISO 639-1 language code supported by the Google Text to Speech API.
Invoke gtts-cli:
gtts-cli.py --help
usage: gtts-cli.py [-h] (-t TEXT | -f FILE) [-l LANG] [--debug] destination
(Ex.) Read the string 'Hello' in English to hello.mp3
$ gtts-cli.py -t "Hello" -l 'en' hello.mp3
(Ex.) Read the contents of file 'hello.txt' in Czech to hello.mp3:
$ gtts-cli.py -f hello.txt -l 'cs' hello.mp3
- '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'