Text to Speech Library for Python using Windows 8.1 (SAPI)

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I'm trying to create a simple program that will relay what I type as synthesized speech. I've tried pyttsx, it has been known to not work with python 3.x and it sure doesn't. I also tried using speech, but it interfered with the speech_recognition Library I'm using. I don't have any code to show since I don't even have a Library for it yet.

Running Python 3.4.2 32-bit on Windows 8.1 64-bit

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:07:42Z

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According to this POST, considering that you are targeting the Windows platform, the following will work:

import win32com.client
speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
speaker.Speak("Hello, it works!")

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Maskot Over a year ago

just tried it, gave me an error ImportError: No module named 'win32api'

Hunter Mitchell Over a year ago

@Maskot Try this: stackoverflow.com/questions/25257274/…

Maskot Over a year ago

I installed pywin32, still nothing?

Hunter Mitchell Over a year ago

@Maskot That's odd. Try and restart your python interpreter, etc. and see if that does not work.

Maskot Over a year ago

I got it to work, but now a new problem has surfaced

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