How to Convert Text to Speech in Python

In this post, we will learn how to convert text to speech in Python with detailed explanation and example.

In Python, it is very easy and simple to convert text to speech using pre-built Python libraries. If you are a beginner, you can consider it as your project to learn how to work with external libraries and also by creating this text to speech converter you can do so much exciting things so let’s start learning how we can create text-to-speech converter.

Install Important Libraries

For creating text to speech converter we need to install two external libraries.

1. gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech) Library: gTTs is python external library and it will convert text input into mp3 file. to install this library write below command in your terminal. 👉 Read more about gTTs Library

pip install gTTS

2. playsound Module: Using this module we will play our mp3 file generated by gTTs. To install it write below command in your terminal. 👉 Read more about playsound module

pip install playsound

After installing both libraries write the following code and run it to see the output.

Source Code

from gtts import gTTS
import playsound

text = input("Enter your Text: ")
sound = gTTS(text, lang="en") # convert text to speech 

# save your sound (audio file)
sound.save("my_sound.mp3")

print("Sound is playing....")

# Play the saved audio file
playsound.playsound("my_sound.mp3")

print("End")

Output

Enter your Text: Hello let's start learning python with allinpython
Sound is playing....
End

This is all about how we can convert text to speech. I hope this article helps you learn new things. Thank you for reading, and see you in the next post.

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