Testing Raspberry Pi audio using pyttsx - Python Cross-platform text-to-speech wrapper.

speech-test.py

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# speech-test.py
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# Author: electronut.in
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# Description:
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# Testing Raspberry Pi audio using pyttsx - Python Cross-platform
# text-to-speech wrapper
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# test run:
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# python speech-test.py "hello there"
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import sys
import pyttsx

# main() function
def main():
  # use sys.argv if needed
  print 'running speech-test.py...'
  engine = pyttsx.init()
  str = "I speak. Therefore. I am.  "
  if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    str = sys.argv[1]
  engine.say(str)
  engine.runAndWait()

# call main
if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()