how to have pyspeech ignore certain words

Question

Hello i am using pyspeech and googlemaps in python to get direction and i'm trying to make pyspeech say the directions out loud thing is that is say like greater than, less than and b for the "< b >" in the code is there a way to ignore these brackets and just say the rest or the directions?

Code:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
import speech
api_key = (my key)
gmaps = GoogleMaps(api_key)
place1 = raw_input("Your address: ")
place = raw_input("Destination: ")
start = place1
end = place
dirs = gmaps.directions(start, end)
time = dirs['Directions']['Duration']['seconds']
dist = dirs['Directions']['Distance']['meters']
route = dirs['Directions']['Routes'][0]
for step in route['Steps']:
    print step['descriptionHtml']
    speech.say(step['descriptionHtml'])

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Since each of the steps are just strings, all you need to do is use:

step['descriptionHtml'].replace("<b>", "").replace("</b>", "")

to remove the HTML tags.

Another option to consider is to just strip all the HTML from the text, but that might be overkill if the only tags you encounter are <b> and </b>.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Jun 19 '13 at 02:26

Chris Laplante

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how would i get rid of this, this has quotation marks in it
– user2458048 Jun 19 '13 at 02:40
In that case give this a try: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4869782/221061 (from the question I linked to above) – Chris Laplante Jun 19 '13 at 02:42
Put `import re` at the top of your .py file, and then you can do: `re.sub('<[^<]+?>', '', step['descriptionHtml'])` – Chris Laplante Jun 19 '13 at 02:43

how to have pyspeech ignore certain words

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