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I am trying into convert text to speech in Python using the gTTS module. Is there a method you can use which does not involve saving the audio to an mp3 file and instead plays the it directly? I have looked online for a while but I still can't find a method which completely avoids saving to files. Thanks!

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  • as I remeber this question was few times on Stackoverflow and first you should find them. You can use `io.Bytes` to create file-like object in memory - and this method is used to work with images without saving on disk - but as I rember problem is that modules which can play audio can't work with file-like object but they need filename. – furas Aug 11 '20 at 17:04

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Try using pyttsx3. Usage:

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("I will speak this text")
engine.runAndWait()

This does not save audio to an mp3 file and works offline.

Link to source code

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You can also use this function which will give you the option to modify the speed of the spoken text, in the example below, the speed is 178:

engine.setProperty("rate", 178)
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