How to make Python speak

Question

How could I make Python say some text?

I could use Festival with subprocess but I won't be able to control it (or maybe in interactive mode, but it won't be clean).

Is there a Python TTS library? Like an API for Festival, eSpeak, ... ?

Answer 1

You should try using the PyTTSx package since PyTTS is outdated. PyTTSx works with Python 2. For Python 3, install the PyTTSx3 package.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyttsx/

https://pypi.org/project/pyttsx3/

Answer 2

A bit cheesy, but if you use a mac you can pass a terminal command to the console from python.

Try typing the following in the terminal:

$ say 'hello world'  

And there will be a voice from the mac that will speak that. From python such a thing is relatively easy:

import os os.system("echo 'hello world'") os.system("say 'hello world'")