Text-to-Speech Program Using Python

I created a TTS program for school. In this picture you can see the original plans for this project. As I didnt complete this to the extent that I wished, but this is how far I got.

Supplies

Raspberry Pi 4

any small speakers

MicroSD card

Power Supply that does 5V and 3A

HDMI to MicroHDMI cable

monitor, mouse, keyboard

Physical Setup

Plug the speakers, mouse, keyboard, and monitor into the Pi4 and plug the Pi4 into the power supply.

Digital Setup

Download Python, go into Terminal and type:

sudo pip3 install gtts

sudo pip3 install playsound3

The Code

Im not going to do the code piece by piece as that makes it annoying to copy this since some code doesnt work without other parts and so on. So I will just put notes next to the code to say what it does.

#the library importing. The * symbol imports the whole thing.

from tkinter import *

from tkinter.ttk import *

from gtts import gTTS

from playsound3 import playsound

#converts text to speech

def make_speech():

tts = gTTS(txt.get())

tts.save(PATH)

playsound(PATH)

#will be used for storing speech.mp3

PATH = "C:\\Users\\Eli\\Documents\\speech.mp3" #Replace this path with your own

#makes the window object

root = Tk()

root.title("Text to Speech")

root.geometry("400x200")

root.config(bg='#bc5cdb')

#will store the speech as text

txt = StringVar()

#create a label

label = Label(root,

text ="Enter text:",

font= ('Helvetica 15 bold')).place(relx=0.5,rely=0.1,anchor=CENTER)

#create a textbox

speech_entry = Entry(root,

textvariable = txt,

font=('calibre',10,'normal')).place(relx=0.5,rely=0.3,anchor=CENTER)

#create a button

speak_btn = Button(root,text = 'Speak',

command = make_speech).place(relx=0.5,rely=0.5,anchor=CENTER)

#keep the window running

root.mainloop()

Yippee!

With that it should work. Theres a non-zero chance it doesnt work, but oh well. This is my first Instructable, so I dont know if I can update these things, but if I cant then I will be making a new one where I either make it not need the monitor and the mouse, or I make it use a Vocaloid for a voicebank. But for you, you are done! hooray