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How To Build a Multilingual Text-to-Audio Converter With Python
- In this article, we will build a simple text-to-audio converter app using Python, googletrans API and gTTS for text-to-speech conversion.
- The app will enable seamless conversation in the local language of a new country, making it an ideal tool for tourists.
- This project has three main components — Translation (googletrans), Text-to-speech (gTTS), and Audio playback (pygame).
- The translate_text() function uses the googletrans library for text translation, and takes in text and the target language code.
- text_to_audio() function helps convert the text to audio using gTTS and pygame.
- This application has many uses, such as helping people explore foreign countries, aiding in language learning, multi-tasking content consumption, and multinational communication.
- Pygame can play the audio files, and builds game-related Python applications and software.
- Googletrans is a Python binding for the Google Translate API and allows python scripts to integrate a text translation feature into custom apps.
- gTTS comes with a pre-defined set of language templates which can be used to convert text to speech easily.
- One can add features to the application like an interactive GUI, options for changing pronunciation and pace of the audio.
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