Title: Text-to-Speech
Submitter: Nelson Rush (other recipes)
Last Updated: 2002/02/13
Version no: 1.0
Category:

Description:

An example of using the MS Speech SDK to implement TTS (Text-To-Speech).

Source: Text Source

# speak.py
#
# Repeats what user types.
#
# Make sure you have MS Speech SDK installed
# and registered with the MakePy tool in PythonWin.
#
import sys
from win32com.client import constants
import win32com.client

speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
print "Type word or phrase, then enter."
print "Ctrl+Z then enter (dos/win32) or Ctrl+D (unix) to exit."
while 1:
	try:
		s = raw_input()
		speaker.Speak(s)
	except:
		if sys.exc_type is EOFError:
			sys.exit()

Discussion:

This is fun, you could make a Dr. Sbaitso clone if you throw some Markov chains in.