Text To Speech with pyTTS

[Hans Georg Krauthaeuser]

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