python-espeak

Where do i get the espeak functions to work along with pyhton

Asked by Paula

Hi, this is my first post here.
I'm coding in python and i've implemented espeak the only i could do so far is
from espeak import espeak

espeak.synth("Helo")

But i would like to configure its speech speed, try different voices, but i cant find the proper documentation. the only i've had found was the terminal commands documentation.

I hope you could help me. Thank you in advance

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Bhavana V (bhavana-v1) said : 		#1

espeak is very easy to use, but its default voice sounds very robotic....as you need to try some different voices and with various speeds , i suggest to use GoogleTTS .
The script comes with many options and does not speak, instead it saves to an mp3. We added a command to play the mp3 automatically
Eg:
os.system("mpg321 out.mp3 -quiet")

and run with

python gtts.py -s 'Python programming example'

The voice is extremely natural.
The only disadvantage is that you need to be connected with the Internet when running this script.

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