Text to speech

Double-click on your new file myfile.mp3 to play it with iTunes.

pip3 install gtts
pip3 show gtts

gtts-cli --help
gtts-cli --all | cat -n

cd ~/Desktop
gtts-cli --lang en-us --slow --output myfile.mp3 "Hello, how are you?"

ls -l myfile.mp3
-rw-r--r--  1 myname  mygroup  9024 Sep 20 08:12 myfile.mp3

file myfile.mp3
myfile.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2,  32 kbps, 24 kHz, Monaural

"""
Convert text to speech in different languages.
"""

import sys
import os

import tempfile
import playsound
import gtts   #Google Text-To-Speech

print("We're going to say what you type.")
print("Here are the available languages:")
print()

for key, value in gtts.lang.tts_langs().items():   #a dict
    print(key, value)

print()
lang = input("Please enter the code for your language (e.g., en-us): ")
text = input("Please enter some text: ")
print()

try:
    textToSpeech = gtts.gTTS(text = text, lang = lang, slow = True)
except BaseException as error:
    print(error, file = sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)

# Save the audio in a temporary file with a name.
temporaryFile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
textToSpeech.save(temporaryFile.name)

print("Here is the temporary file:")
print(os.popen(f"ls -l {temporaryFile.name}").read(), end = "")
print(os.popen(f"file {temporaryFile.name}").read(), end = "")

# Play and erase the temporary file.
try:
    playsound.playsound(temporaryFile.name, True)   #Requires a filename or URL.
except OSError as error:
    print(error, file = sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)
finally:
    temporaryFile.close()   #Erases the temporary file.

sys.exit(0)

We're going to say what you type.
Here are the available languages:

af Afrikaans
sq Albanian
ar Arabic
hy Armenian
bn Bengali
bs Bosnian
ca Catalan
hr Croatian
cs Czech
da Danish
nl Dutch
en English
eo Esperanto
et Estonian
tl Filipino
fi Finnish
fr French
de German
el Greek
gu Gujarati
hi Hindi
hu Hungarian
is Icelandic
id Indonesian
it Italian
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
kn Kannada
km Khmer
ko Korean
la Latin
lv Latvian
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mr Marathi
my Myanmar (Burmese)
ne Nepali
no Norwegian
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
ro Romanian
ru Russian
sr Serbian
si Sinhala
sk Slovak
es Spanish
su Sundanese
sw Swahili
sv Swedish
ta Tamil
te Telugu
th Thai
tr Turkish
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
vi Vietnamese
cy Welsh
zh-cn Chinese (Mandarin/China)
zh-tw Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)
en-us English (US)
en-ca English (Canada)
en-uk English (UK)
en-gb English (UK)
en-au English (Australia)
en-gh English (Ghana)
en-in English (India)
en-ie English (Ireland)
en-nz English (New Zealand)
en-ng English (Nigeria)
en-ph English (Philippines)
en-za English (South Africa)
en-tz English (Tanzania)
fr-ca French (Canada)
fr-fr French (France)
pt-br Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-pt Portuguese (Portugal)
es-es Spanish (Spain)
es-us Spanish (United States)

Please enter the code for your language (e.g., en-us): es
Please enter some text: Yo no soy marinero.  Soy capitan.

Here is the temporary file:
-rw-------  1 myname  mygroup  13632 Sep 12 11:25 /var/folders/pb/rx_csw656h95vzh_nk8ndt180000gn/T/tmp5cadx4zm
/var/folders/pb/rx_csw656h95vzh_nk8ndt180000gn/T/tmp5cadx4zm: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2,  32 kbps, 24 kHz, Monaural