«

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.

Mike P. wrote:
> 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 saw the following blog entry by Joey deVilla:
http://farm.tucows.com/blog/Platform...19/266813.html

and immediately tried it out. All I did was download the
PyTTS package for Python (2.4, not 2.3), and install it,
then ran Joey's sample above. It worked as advertised.
This was on Windows XP SP2.

-Peter

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Mike P. wrote:
>
>> 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 saw the following blog entry by Joey deVilla:
> http://farm.tucows.com/blog/Platform...19/266813.html
>
>
> and immediately tried it out. All I did was download the
> PyTTS package for Python (2.4, not 2.3), and install it,
> then ran Joey's sample above. It worked as advertised.
> This was on Windows XP SP2.

I experience the same thing as Mike P. Im running on Windows 2K.

Will McGugan

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
> ...

The TTSFast.py file is missing in the 2.3 distribution. I made a copy
from the 2.4 dist and everything worked fine for me.

Hans Georg

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


--
Meet the Python developers and your c.l.py favorites March 23-25
Come to PyCon DC 2005 http://www.pycon.org/
Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/

I released a new version of the Windows installer for Python 2.3 that
includes the missing _TTSFast.pyd file.


Peter Hansen wrote:
> Mike P. wrote:
> > 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 saw the following blog entry by Joey deVilla:
>
http://farm.tucows.com/blog/Platform...19/266813.html
>
> and immediately tried it out. All I did was download the
> PyTTS package for Python (2.4, not 2.3), and install it,
> then ran Joey's sample above. It worked as advertised.
> This was on Windows XP SP2.
>
> -Peter

Peter wrote:
> I released a new version of the Windows installer for Python 2.3 that
> includes the missing _TTSFast.pyd file.
>
>
Unfortunenately, the file TTSFast.py is missing, not _TTSFast.pyd.

Hans Georg