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Credits to nateshmbhat for creating the original library pyttsx3.

This library has not yet been released on PyPI, so the only way to use this right now is to have the project locally cloned.

Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python

RLVoice is a text-to-speech conversion library in Python. Unlike alternative libraries, it works offline.

Installation :

pip install rlvoice
If you get installation errors , make sure you first upgrade your wheel version using :
pip install --upgrade wheel

Linux installation requirements :

  • If you are on a linux system and if the voice output is not working , then :

    Install espeak , ffmpeg and libespeak1 as shown below:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak ffmpeg libespeak1

Features :

  • ✨Fully OFFLINE text to speech conversion
  • 🎈 Choose among different voices installed in your system
  • 🎛 Control speed/rate of speech
  • 🎚 Tweak Volume
  • 📀 Save the speech audio as a file
  • ❤️ Simple, powerful, & intuitive API

Usage :

import rlvoice

engine = rlvoice.init()
engine.say("I will speak this text")
engine.runAndWait()

Single line usage with speak function with default options

import rlvoice

rlvoice.speak("I will speak this text")

Changing Voice , Rate and Volume :

import rlvoice

engine = rlvoice.init()  # object creation

""" RATE"""
rate = engine.getProperty('rate')  # getting details of current speaking rate
print(rate)  # printing current voice rate
engine.setProperty('rate', 125)  # setting up new voice rate

"""VOLUME"""
volume = engine.getProperty('volume')  # getting to know current volume level (min=0 and max=1)
print(volume)  # printing current volume level
engine.setProperty('volume', 1.0)  # setting up volume level  between 0 and 1

"""VOICE"""
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')  # getting details of current voice
# engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)  #changing index, changes voices. o for male
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)  # changing index, changes voices. 1 for female

engine.say("Hello World!")
engine.say('My current speaking rate is ' + str(rate))
engine.runAndWait()
engine.stop()

"""Saving Voice to a file"""
# On linux make sure that 'espeak' and 'ffmpeg' are installed
engine.save_to_file('Hello World', 'test.mp3')
engine.runAndWait()

Full documentation is located in the docs folder.

Included TTS engines:

  • sapi5
  • nsss
  • espeak

Feel free to wrap another text-to-speech engine for use with rlvoice.

Project Links :