Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be making a text to speech using google speech to text api in python and tkinter. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the following libraries by using the pip command

pip install gtts

pip install playsound

pip install tkinter

After installing all the libraries just make an app.py file and copy paste the following code to it

app.py

# Jia Feng Yu
# Side Project: Text to Speech App


from tkinter import *
from gtts import gTTS
from playsound import playsound
import os

root = Tk()
root.geometry('350x300')
root.resizable(0,0)
root.config(bg = "#002b36")
root.title("Text to Speech")


Label(root, text = "Text to Speech" , font = "consolas 20 bold", bg = "#002b36", fg = "#17aaf9").pack()
Label(root, text = "This uses the Google Text To Speech API" , font = "consolas 12 bold", bg = "#002b36", fg = "#17aaf9").pack(side = BOTTOM)
Label(root, text = "Enter Text", font = "consolas 15 bold", bg = "#002b36", fg = "#17aaf9").place(x=20,y=60)


Msg = StringVar()
entry_field = Entry(root,textvariable = Msg, width ='50')
entry_field.place(x=20 , y=100)

def Text_to_speech():
    Message = entry_field.get()
    speech = gTTS(text = Message)
    speech.save("audio.mp3")
    playsound("audio.mp3")

def Exit():
    root.destroy()

def Reset():
    Msg.set("")

Button(root, text = "PLAY" , font = "consolas 15 bold", command = Text_to_speech, width = 4).place(x = 60, y=140)
Button(root, text = "EXIT", font = "consolas 15 bold", command = Exit, bg = "OrangeRed1").place(x = 135, y=140)
Button(root, text = "RESET", font = "consolas 15 bold", command = Reset).place(x = 210, y =140)

root.mainloop()

Now if you execute this python script by using the below command

python app.py

In the above gui application you need to write the text into it and then you can play it and also it will create the mp3 file

audio.mp3 inside the root directory like this