README

What is this repository for?

This is something I made when I was super sick and lost my voice.

Once setup, usage is as simple as updating a file (speech.txt) and running the program (python main.py) again.

Quick Start

• Install Python
• Optional: set up virtual environment
  • Create virtual environment (python -m venv venv)
  • Activate virtual environment (source ./venv/bin/activate)
  • See here for beginner-friendly explanation and here for reference.
• pip install pyttsx3
• Change speech.txt to whatever you want!
• python main.py

Voice Selection

The VOICE_INDEX variable defined in main.py indicates which voice to use. You can hear other voices by passing in a different voice index. main also has find_voices, which lets you try different text with different language bases to hear different choices.

Note that if you want to dive into more detail, the function find_voices in helper.py can go through all voices available. You can use that to identify the voice you want as your own and change the VOICE_INDEX.