How to create a basic text to speech bot using python

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When we say text-to-speech (TTS), We are talking about assertive technology which reads any text and speaks aloud. In today's digital world, we have multiple applications, where this text-to-speech technology can be used. 

A few of the applications are listed below - 

• Audio book narration
• Voice assistant for old age and people with disabilities
• Helping people with speech disorders
• Helping students pursuing foreign languages

Today we are going to write a basic Python text-to-speech program. Which is going to read the message loud which we are passing to it.

To Create a basic text-to-speech converter we are going to use `pyttsx3` library. Which provides a very simple interface for text-to-speech conversion. 

Step-by-step guide to create a basic text-to-speech converter - 

1 - Download the pyttsx module using pip or pip3(If you are using Python3)

pip install pyttsx3

2 - Create a python script to import the pyttsx3 library - 

import pyttsx3

3 - Initialize text-to-speech engine - 

engine = pyttsx3.init()

4 - Define a function which will read the provided text aloud

def text_to_speech(text):

engine.say(text)

engine.runAndWait()

5 - Call the above method by passing some text - 

text_to_read = "Hello, welcome to the geek mode text reader!"

text_to_speech(text_to_read)

Your text-to-speech bot is ready. You can modify and send any string message and this program will read that aloud. 

Complete Program - 

import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()

def text_to_speech(text):

engine.say(text)

engine.runAndWait()

text_to_read = "Hello, welcome to the geek mode text reader!"

text_to_speech(text_to_read)

You can explore more around above library here, and can add more feature in te above program. You can also try to automate the process to read anything you want.