README.md

Hello everyone, I have used here a very simple tool that is, Google Text to Speech API known as the gTTS API. It converts text entered by the user, into audio which can be saved as a mp3 file.

Installation

Open the terminal and install

pip install gTTS

pip install playsound

Here is the sample code

# Import the required module
from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound


# function
def function(language):
    mytext = input("Type in your preferred language :\t")
    object = gTTS(text=mytext, lang=language, slow=False)

    # Saving the converted audio in a mp3 file named
    object.save("audio.mp3")

    # Playing the converted file
    playsound('audio.mp3')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    #  languages
    print(" en: English\n hi:Hindi\n ml: Malayalam\n ta:Tamil\n ")
    language = input("Enter the language code you want to convert to speech\n")
    function(language)  # calling function

Create a python file and name it as you wish with .py extension. Run the above sample code. Input: Enter the code in the language you want to convert into speech. For example : en for English. Then enter the text you wish to convert into speech. The output will be an audio of your entered text.

**Explanation about code **

from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound

Import the necessary packages.

object = gTTS(text=mytext, lang=language, slow=False)

Parameters :

• text = It's of string type. The text to be read.

• lang = The language to read the text. It defualt value is en. List of language can be accessed by gtts-cli --all

• slow = Reads text more slowly. Defaults is False.

object.save("audio.mp3")

Saves to mp3 format.

playsound('audio.mp3')

It plays the saved mp3 file.

**Note : ** For more details refer gTTS documentation and playsound.