IBM Watson TTS

This package leverages IBM Watson's TTS A.P.I to stream audio of text using pyaudio. This improves performance response.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or higher
• pip
• portaudio[1]

[1] Can be installed with brew install portaudio (MAC OS) or apt-get install portaudio19-dev (Linux).

Installation

Run: pip install tts-watson

CLI

Your Waston credentials will be initially requested. A config file located at ~/.config-tts-watson.yml will be created.

Run in the command line: tts-watson text to sound i want. You will hear text to sound i want played back to you.

Example Of Usage

from tts_watson.TtsWatson import TtsWatson

ttsWatson = TtsWatson('watson_user', 'watson_password', 'en-US_AllisonVoice') #[2] 
ttsWatson.play("The text which i want to be a sound")

[2] en-US_AllisonVoice is one of many possible voices to use. You can see the full list here and descriptions here.