pyttsx

Cross-platform Python wrapper for text-to-speech synthesis

Quickstart

basic usage for speak text out:

import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.say('Greetings!')
engine.say('How are you today?')
#engine.runAndWait() #no nead for this version

See http://pyttsx.readthedocs.org/ for documentation of the full API.

the flollowing recording function is added by hick(http://blog.HickWu.com), for windows only:

import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.rec(u'中文支持!', 'hick.wav')

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.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/