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Error if text > 200 char

See original GitHub issue

I am currently running version 2.2.0 and it seems like if the text we are trying to convert is greater than 200 char, the conversion fails with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 11, in <module>
    myobj.save("audiobook.mp3")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 311, in save
    self.write_to_fp(f)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 293, in write_to_fp
    raise gTTSError(tts=self, response=r)
gtts.tts.gTTSError: 200 (OK) from TTS API. Probable cause: Unknown

Sample code to reproduce the problem:

from gtts import gTTS

finalChar = 201
language = 'en'
finalText = ""
for i in range(30):
    finalText += "\n0123456789"
print(finalText[:finalChar])

myobj = gTTS(text=finalText[:finalChar], lang=language, slow=False)
myobj.save("audiobook.mp3")

if you change back finalChar to 200, the request works and the file is written on disk.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:23 (9 by maintainers)

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erichsu0527commented, Feb 2, 2021

Since zh is not a language, Chinese does not work at all.

from gtts import gTTS tts = gTTS(“说中文”, lang=“zh-CN”) tts.save(“helloch.mp3”) tts = gTTS(“說中文”, lang=“zh-TW”) tts.save(“helloch.mp3”)

Get “gtts.tts.gTTSError: 200 (OK) from TTS API. Probable cause: Unknown” on both tts.save()

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pndurettecommented, Feb 12, 2021

@KelvinKramp, @srugai & @NikithaNimbalkar:

The accents are back, just obtained differently!

I’ve added updated documentation on how to obtain local accents with the combination of the right language code (lang) and top-level domain (tld)! See: https://gtts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/module.html#localized-accents