pylips.speech.SystemTTS

class pylips.speech.SystemTTS[source]

A text-to-speech backend that uses the system’s default TTS engine.

Parameters: None –

__init__()[source]

Methods

`__init__`()
`gen_audio_and_visemes`(text[, voice_id, fname])	Generates audio and visemes from a string of text using the system's default TTS engine.
`get_audio_and_visemes`(fname)	Gets the audio and visemes from a file that was previously generated.
`list_voices`()	Lists all the voices that are available in the system's default TTS backend.

gen_audio_and_visemes(text, voice_id=None, fname=None)[source]

Generates audio and visemes from a string of text using the system’s default TTS engine.

Parameters

text (str) – the text that the robot should speak
voice_id (str) – the voice that the robot should speak in
fname (str) – the name of the file that the audio should be saved to

Returns

a tuple containing fname, times, and visemes. fname is the path to the audio file, times is a list of times that correspond to the initiation of the visemes, and visemes is a list of visemes that correspond to the words in the audio

Return type

(tuple)

Raises

Exception – if the voice_id is not in the list of available voices

get_audio_and_visemes(fname)[source]

Gets the audio and visemes from a file that was previously generated.

Parameters: fname (str) – the name of the file that the audio and visemes were saved to. It is not necessary to include the file extension.
Returns: a tuple containing fname, times, and visemes. fname is the path to the audio file, times is a list of times that correspond to the initiation of the visemes, and visemes is a list of visemes that correspond to the words in the audio
Return type: (tuple)

list_voices()[source]

Lists all the voices that are available in the system’s default TTS backend.

Parameters: None –