Pyttsx And Gtts Module Errors

windows 10-64bit I'm trying to use some text-to-speech tool to read text from lines of .txt document, something like this: so with pyttsx: import pyttsx engine = pyttsx.init() eng

Solution 1:

for python3 use

pyttsx3

Its a new library compatible with both python3 and python2. Unlike gTTS it doesn't need internet connection and there is no delay in the sound produced.

Install:

pip install pyttsx3

Usage :

importpyttsx3engine= pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("Hi this is working ");
engine.setProperty('volume',0.9)
engine.runAndWait()

Solution 2:

I am using windows 10 and Python 2.7.

For pyttsx:

Below code is working fine for me. I did get ImportError: No module named win32api error for which I had to install win32api from here

After that I could play "my voice". Although the quality and fidelity of spoken sound was very low. gtts is much better in that regards.

importpyttsxengine= pyttsx.init()
engine.say('my voice')
engine.runAndWait() 

For the error you are getting, Can you look into your python folder and see if engine.py file is present?

For e.g. in my case, I've pyttsx modules installed at following location C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pyttsx and here is a list of files,

 Name
 ----
 drivers
 driver.py
 driver.pyc
 engine.py
 engine.pyc
 voice.py
 voice.pyc
 __init__.py
 __init__.pyc

Since import of engine is failing, I am wondering if you have engine.py file in the correct folder or present at all.

For gtts:

I tried playing sound with winsound, but it did not work. Using pydub I was able to play the audio file. But, since your requirement is not to use a file, this may be a moot point.

import gtts
import winsound
from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.playback import play

blabla = ("my voice")
tts = gtts.gTTS(text=blabla, lang='en')
tts.save("rec.mp3")
print"Playing sound .."#winsound.PlaySound("rec.wav", winsound.SND_FILENAME)
song = AudioSegment.from_mp3("rec.mp3")
play(song)

Hope this helps.

Solution 3:

I'm using python2.7 on Ubuntu.

Try to replace "from engine import Engine" with "from .engine import Engine" in the engine module.It work for me!