Recording synthesized text-to-speech to a file in Python

Question

I am attempting to find a way to take synthesized speech and record it to an audio file. I am currently using pyttsx as my text-to-speech library, but there isn\'t a mechani

Answer 1

Here is an example which gives you access to the NSSpeechSynthesizer API

#!/usr/bin/env python

from  AppKit import NSSpeechSynthesizer
import sys
import Foundation


if len(sys.argv) < 2:
   text = raw_input('type text to speak> ')
else:
   text = sys.argv[1]

nssp = NSSpeechSynthesizer
ve = nssp.alloc().init()
ve.setRate_(100)
url = Foundation.NSURL.fileURLWithPath_('yourpath/test.aiff')
ve.startSpeakingString_toURL_(text,url)