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Introduction to Text To Speech With Python
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Introduction to Text To Speech With Python

Make your computer speak
Created byAhmet Aksoy
Last updated 8/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to install Virtualenv and Virtualenvwrapper
  • Learn how to install Pycharm (Python IDE)
  • Learn how to install required libraries and applications
  • Learn how to convert text to speech using Python

Course content

9 sections • 26 lectures • 2h 11m total length

  • Introduction and Requirements1:10

    In this course we'll learn about some simple text-to-speech methods. So, by using them we could make our computer speak what it reads.

    We will use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as our main operating system.

    We will install necessary libraries and applications, and will write our Python 3.6 scripts on it.

    Then we will do the same things a little faster on Windows 10 an Mac OSX operating systems.

    Some of the required libraries are pyttsx3, talkey, pyaudio and gtts.

  • Required Python Libraries0:48

    We install some libraries to play audio files: VLC, pygame, and pyglet.

    Text-to-speech libraries we will install are as follows: gtts, pyaudio, pyttsx3, talkey.

    Also we will install eSpeak on our system.

  • What will we learn?0:22

    We will learn how to install some Python libraries and applications.

    We will write some online and offline Python scripts to convert text to speech.

    So, our computer will be able to speak under our command.

  • Who am I?1:22

    Let me introduce myself


    My name is Ahmet Aksoy.

    I was born in 1953.

    I was graduated from Middle East Technical University of Ankara - Turkey as a Civil Enginer.

    After working in some construction sites for five years, I started computer programming.

    I worked with Python, Java, Delphi, C, C++, Visual Basic, Clipper and many other programming languages...

    I have a total 35 years of programming experience.

    I started the Open Source Project DerlemTR in order to collect all words in living Turkish and I continue to work on the same project.

    I have three published Python books in Turkish.

    My fourth Python book will be published in August, 2019.

    I continue working in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Engineering and NLP.

    I have published the "Introduction to Text To Speech with Python" Course in Turkish in Udemy.

Requirements

  • Applicants must have a level of Python programming above beginner
  • There is no need for mathematics

Description

We are in the AI and robotics era.

Our mobile phones understand what we say and speak. Also new model computers can talk.
Can we do something also?
What not make our computer speak?

In this course, we will learn the basics of Text-to-Speech (TTS).

We will use Python 3.6. A little better than beginner level of programming skill will be enough.

We will study very simple coding examples. But you can improve the scripts easily.

In the course we will use Pycharm Community IDE. Of course, this is not a must! You can write your scripts in a terminal too.

Our main operating system is Ubuntu Linux, version 18.04 LTS. But, our Python scripts will be also compatible with Windows 10 and  Mac OS X which can run Python 3.6.

At the last section of our course, I will show simply how to install required libraries and applications and run our Python scripts in both Windows and Mac.

After this course, I will publish a more advanced course on Speech-to-Text (STT). This course will be helpful for it.

I hope I can help you to start working on TTS and STT with Python.


Who this course is for:

  • Python programmers who want to write their own Text-to-Speech scripts
  • Python programmers who want to practice AI from the beginning and want to create their own bots

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