Mike P. wrote:

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with the python text to speech
(pyTTS) module available on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncassist

I have followed the tutorial for pyTTS at:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr02.shtml

Using the first simple speech example:

import pyTTS

tts = pyTTS.Create()
tts.Speak("Hello World!")

I get the following error on the call to pyTTS.Create()

C:\Program Files\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pyTTS>python
ActivePython 2.3.2 Build 232 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.3.2 (#49, Nov 13 2003, 10:34:54) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import pyTTS
tts = pyTTS.Create()

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Program Files\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pyTTS\__init__.py", line 28, in Create raise ValueError('"%s" not supported' % api) ValueError: "SAPI" not supported


I followed the instructions in the tutorial in order and installed the required packages in the following order, given that I already had an ActiveState Python 2.3 installation under Windows XP.

1) wxPython2.5-win32-unicode-2.5.3.1-py23.exe (didn't already have this and
some of the pyTTS demos need it)

2) Microsoft SAPI 5.1 (SAPI5SpeechInstaller.msi)
3) Extra Microsoft Voices (SAPI5VoiceInstaller.msi)
4) pyTTS-3.0.win32-py2.3.exe (pyTTS for Python 2.3 under windows)

I ran the example and it didn't work. I didn't initially install Mark
Hammond's
Python win32all extensions, because they already come with ActiveState
Python.
So I tried installing the win32all (win32all-163.exe) package just in case,
but I still
get the SAPI not supported error.

Anyone get this working - any suggestions? Or am I missing something
obvious?

Thanks In Advance.

Mike P.


I got the "SAPI not supported" error until I installed the SpeechInstaller and VoiceInstaller components, after which everything worked fine for me. (Win2K SP4, Python 2.4 plus win32 extentions).

regards
 Steve


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