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Can't install pyttsx3 module
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I install stash, and after in stash console try:
pip install pyttsx3I receive
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Running setup file ...
PermissionError(1, 'Operation not permitted')
Failed to run setup.py
Fall back to directory guessing ...
Error: Cannot locate packages. Manual installation required.When installed wikipedia all was ok.
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This is not a solution for the installation but maybe it can help you, Pythonista has an already TTS module called “speech” and it works well
import speech speech.say('hello')
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@sulcud
In iOS 12 russian language work well. But in iOS 13 russian words pronounce terrible with english mix. What's wrong in iOS13? -
I don’t speak Russian so I can’t confirm is the Russian pronunciation Is wrong, but maybe you are running the “say” function with the language “en-US”; this function has this parameters:
text -> text you want to say
language -> (optional) the language that you want to speak with
rate -> (optional) the speed of the voiceMaybe you are trying this, I don’t know
import speech speech.say(some_russian_text)
You should try
import speech speech.say("привет друг", "ru-RU")
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If not yet ok, you could try speech via ObjectiveC
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@sulcud
Thank's again. Setting "ru-RU" working good in iOS13.def say(text):
settings = read_settings() if settings["sound"] == 'yes': # windows if os.name == 'nt': engine = pyttsx3.init() en_voice_id = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-US_ZIRA_11.0" ru_voice_id = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_RU-RU_IRINA_11.0" # use russian sound engine.setProperty('voice', ru_voice_id) engine.say(text) engine.runAndWait() # iOS, Android elif os.name == 'posix': speech.say(text, "ru-RU") else: pass
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@sulcud
Maybe you know how to change default voice from female to male?
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@lyubomyr83 said:
how can i print all availible voices?
https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/4706/how-to-use-speech-say-in-different-voice/2
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@lyubomyr83, I made this class to make it easier to work with the reference @ccc is pointing to, all could be done thanks to the work of @JonB
import objc_util import re class SpeechModule(object): def __init__(self): self.__AVSpeechUtterance = objc_util.ObjCClass('AVSpeechUtterance') self.__AVSpeechSynthesizer = objc_util.ObjCClass('AVSpeechSynthesizer') self.__AVSpeechSynthesisVoice = objc_util.ObjCClass('AVSpeechSynthesisVoice') self.__synthesizer = self.__AVSpeechSynthesizer.new() def get_synthesis_languages(self) -> list: return self.__AVSpeechSynthesisVoice.speechVoices() def say(self, msg: str, language: objc_util.ObjCInstance, rate=0.5): utterance = self.__AVSpeechUtterance.speechUtteranceWithString_(msg) utterance.rate = rate utterance.voice = voice utterance.useCompactVoice = False self.__synthesizer.speakUtterance_(utterance) def is_speaking(self) -> bool: return self.__synthesizer.isSpeaking() def is_paused(self) -> bool: return self.__synthesizer.isPaused() def pause(self) -> bool: return self.__synthesizer.pauseSpeakingAtBoundary_(True) def stop(self) -> bool: return self.__synthesizer.stopSpeakingAtBoundary_(True) def continue_speaking(self): self.__synthesizer.continueSpeaking()
Here is an example how to use it
import time speech_ = SpeechModule() available_voices = speech_.get_synthesis_languages() us_english_voices = tuple(filter(lambda voice: "en-US" in str(voice), available_voices)) voice = us_english_voices[0] speech_.say('Hello friend! how are you?', voice, 0.3) time.sleep(1) speech_.stop() print(speech_.is_speaking()) speech_.say("nevermind", voice)
For some reason I can’t make that pause function to work correctly, anyway, it is an idea for your project and maybe my class could be buggy, so objc gurus invocation (@cvp @mikael @JonB @ccc )
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@sulcud 👍 perfect except the fact to include me in a gurus list 😢
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@sulcud said:
For some reason I can’t make that pause function to work correctly,
Parameter of pauseSpeakingAtBoundary_ is not a Boolean but an integer, see AVSpeechBoundary , try 0=Immediately instead ofTrue
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@cvp, you are right, using 0 fixes it, did you find anyway to fix the false positives that is_paused and is_speaking functions return?
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@sulcud I don't have tested your code thus I didn't know there were some problems, except this one you described. I'll try later, sorry
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@sulcud First, parameter of stopSpeakingAtBoundary_ is also integer...
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@sulcud said:
did you find anyway to fix the false positives that is_paused and is_speaking functions return?
No, sorry
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Haven't tried, but often objc_util.on_main_thread fixes problems like is_paused not reporting correct no values.
Note is_speaking will return true even if paused...
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@JonB nothing changed for is_speaking, as you did foresee
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Discussion
Returns YES if the synthesizer is speaking or has utterances enqueued to speak, even if it is currently paused. Returns NO if the synthesizer has finished speaking all utterances in its queue or if it has not yet been given an utterance to speak.So if you want to know when speaking stops, one would want to check if not
speaking
, orspeaking
andpaused
.Because of threading and such, it might be more reliable to implement the delegate, and then keep track of state within the delegate object, that can then be queried in python code.
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@sulcud, looking at this putting a wrapper around the delegate as @JonB suggests looks like the best way to get fine control over the speech, being able to highlight individual words as they are spoken etc.
Such a wrapper could also include synchronous methods, so that it would be easy to just say something and move on after the talking is done.