Get audio output directly

Hello,

i have following code:

text = "Hello, my name is Josef."
targetLanguage = 'de'
tts = gTTS(text, targetLanguage)  
tts.save("synthesized.mp3")

Since i play the output directly after this code, is there a way to get the audio output directly as a variable? So i do not have to save and open the mp3 file again.

Thanks! Josef

[hpolloni]

This worked for me:

from gtts import gTTS
import pygame
from io import BytesIO

pygame.init()

def say(text):
    tts = gTTS(text=text, lang='en')
    fp = BytesIO()
    tts.write_to_fp(fp)
    fp.seek(0)
    pygame.mixer.init()
    pygame.mixer.music.load(fp)
    pygame.mixer.music.play()
    while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():
        pygame.time.Clock().tick(10)

[pndurette]

Yes it’s possible. You need a module that will play from a file-like/file object. Instead of doing tts.save() you can use tts.write_to_fp() to write to a file-like object that you can then reuse to play. As a really simple example:

from gtts import gTTS
from tempfile import TemporaryFile
tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
f = TemporaryFile()
tts.write_to_fp(f)
# Play f
f.close()