macos_speech
Ever wanted to leverage the macOS builtin speech synthesis directly into python ? Or just make your code to talk...
With the Python macos_speech package you can do it in a pythonic way. Easy and zen.
Getting Started:
Installation
pip install macos_speech
or
git clone https://github.com/tibOin/macos_speech.git
cd macos_speech
pip install .
Requirements
macOS 10.x or for oldest OS X
For now, this package only works on Python >= 2.6 and Python >= 3.6.x
Only tested on Python 2.7.10 and >= 3.7.2.
Basic usage
from macos_speech import Synthesizer
speaker = Synthesizer(voice='Alex', device='Built-in')
speaker.text = """How my God! I can make my python code to talk!
And I can even send multiple lines! Awesome.
"""
speaker.talk()
# or
speaker.say("Hello!")Get informations
from macos_speech import Synthesizer
speaker = Synthesizer()
print('''Voices:
NAME LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION
''')
for voice in speaker.voices:
print('{} {} {}'.format(voice.name, voice.lang, voice.desc))
print('')
print('Audio devices:')
for device in speaker.devices:
print('ID: {}, NAME: {}'.format(device.id, device.name))
print('')
print('''Output file possible formats:
ID NAME FILE_EXT DATA_FORMATS BIT_RATES
''')
for format in speaker.formats:
print('{} {} ({}) [{}] [{}]'.format(format.id, format.name,
','.join(format.exts),
','.join(format.formats),
','.join(format.bitrates)))Synthesizer Properties
from macos_speech import Synthesizer
synthe = Synthesizer()
# Helper properties
synthe.devices
synthe.voices
synthe.formats
# Configuration properties
# File IO (takes absolute pathes strings)
synthe.infile # A file containing text to say (mutually exclusive with self.text - high priority)
synthe.outfile # The output audio file (default should be 'output.aiff'
# but you can specify file and data formats)
# Simple configs (takes strings)
synthe.rate # The speech rate
synthe.quality # The audio quality (between 0 and 127 both included)
synthe.text # The text to say (mutually exclusive with self.infile - low priority)
# Pythonified configs (takes macos_speech.CustomClasses)
synthe.format # The audio output file/data format : macos_speech.AudioFormat
# (Works only with self.outfile populated)
synthe.device # The audio output device : macos_speech.AudioDevice
# (or 'name' or 'id' on Python 3)
# (Only used if no self.outfile)
synthe.voice # The voice to use : macos_speech.Voice
# (or 'name' on Python 3)Go Further
from macos_speech import Synthesiser, AudioFormat
# Speech manipulation:
# To create more realistic speech you can play on time and rate.
# You can add delays between words by following a simple syntax.
# Just set the delay by writing time in milliseconds between brackets.
mytext = 'I want to say... [100] something.'
# And/Or specify a rate in words per minutes to your Synthesiser
synthe = Synthesiser(voice='Alex', rate=50, text=mytext)
# Record to file:
# Basically, setting an outfile with supported extension would be enough to correctly encode the file.
speaker = Synthesiser(voice='Alex', text='Some text to record', outfile='rec.mp4')
# But you can customize a lot more your output file:
format = AudioFormat('3gp2', dataformat='Qclp', bitrate=13000)
speaker = Synthesiser(voice='Alex', text= "Some text", format=format, outfile='out.3g2')
