Scripts to convert Text-to-speech

System-Automation-Scripts/Text-to-speech/README.md

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+## Convert text to speech ##
+
+- This script is written in Python and can be used to convert text to speech.
+- The following packages are used :
+    - gtts , Google-Text-To-Speech module, a wrapper around python to implement the text-to-speech API.
+    - pytesseract, Optical Recognition Module, to convert (text) characters from images to text.
+    - wikipedia, a Python wrapper to access basic wikipedia content about any given topic.
+    - Pillow, an image-processing library in Python.
+- All these packages can be installed using ** pip **.
+- An mp3 file will be created on running the script based on the option chosen
+
+## Working ##
+
+![Image](/images/working.PNG)
+
+- 1, To convert text and convert it to speech
+- 2, To convert the contents of a text file to speech
+- 3, convert the text in an image to speech 
+- 4, convert information about a topic from wikipedia into speech
+- According to the option chosen, the required input files must be placed in the same folder
+- A file named text_content.mp3 will be generated.
+

System-Automation-Scripts/Text-to-speech/text-to-speech.py

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+
+#Imports and dependencies
+#gtts, stands for the Google-Text-To-Speech module that is used to convert text to speech
+from gtts import gTTS 
+import os
+
+#These packages are used for OCR(Optical character recognition)
+import pytesseract
+from PIL import Image
+
+#This module is a wrapper around python, basic information about a topic can be obtained
+import wikipedia
+
+#This script can be used to convert text to speech, either from a text file or when a user enters text
+#Text can be read from images using the Optical recognition framework built for Python
+
+print("Option 1, enter text and convert it to speech \n")
+print("Option 2, convert the contents of a text file to speech \n")
+print("Option 3, convert the text in an image to speech \n")
+print("Option 4, convert information about a topic from wikipedia into speech \n")
+
+
+#Conversion will be done to the English language
+language = "en"
+
+def convert_text_to_speech(option):
+
+    text = ""
+    if option == 1:
+        text = input("Enter the text, that has to be converted to speech ")
+
+    elif option == 2:
+        file_name = input("Enter the name of the text file, that has to be converted to speech ")
+        with open(file_name , "r") as handle:
+            text = handle.read().replace("\n" , "")
+
+    elif option == 3:
+        image_path = input("Enter the path of the image that has to be read and converted to speech ")
+        text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(image_path).replace("\n" , ""))
+
+    elif option == 4:
+        wikipedia = input("Enter the topic about which information is to be obtained ")
+        text = wikipedia.summary(wikipedia)
+
+    speech = gTTS(text = text, lang = language, slow = True)
+    speech.save("text_content.mp3")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    option = int(input("Enter the option "))
+    convert_text_to_speech(option)