pyttsx
This is a Python3 port of pyttsx, which is a cross-platform Python wrapper for text-to-speech synthesis. The original software is available at https://github.com/parente/pyttsx.
Quickstart
import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.say('Greetings!')
engine.say('How are you today?')
engine.runAndWait()
See http://pyttsx.readthedocs.org/ for documentation of the full API.
Included drivers
- nsss - NSSpeechSynthesizer on Mac OS X 10.5 and higher
- sapi5 - SAPI5 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and (untested) Windows 7
- espeak - eSpeak on any distro / platform that can host the shared library (e.g., Ubuntu / Fedora Linux)
Contributing drivers
Email the author if you have wrapped or are interested in wrapping another text-to-speech engine for use with pyttsx.
Project links
- Python Package Index for downloads (http://pypi.python.org/pyttsx)
- GitHub site for source, bugs, and q&a (https://github.com/parente/pyttsx)
- ReadTheDocs for docs (http://pyttsx.readthedocs.org)
License
Copyright (c) 2009, 2013 Peter Parente All rights reserved.