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Tired of ‘free’ api’s for Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text that hardly let you use them? Tired of Paying you hard-earned developer cash for 404 api’s which don’t even exist? Tired of ALL the tutorials using Google APIs?

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Yeah. So y’all might me knowing about Python, My 2nd favourite language which you can install from here. I recommend you learn basics of python-3 before reading this blog. You can check out my other Python blogs too.

Prerequisites

We’re using a popular Text-To-Speech wrapper called pyttsx3 and a speech recognition program called SpeechRecognition which you can install by opening Command Prompt(Windows), or Terminal (Linux, MacOS) , typing

pip install pyttsx3 SpeechRecognition

and pressing ENTER(return on Macbooks). On MacOS and go to Terminal and type

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" 
brew install portaudio espeak

For Ubuntu/Debian based linux, go to terminal and type

sudo apt update && sudo apt install espeak ffmpeg libespeak1

then, press enter.
Then, run

espeak Hello

in terminal or Command prompt to verify your install by
checking if you can hear a voice saying ‘Hello’
Pyttxs3 is a fairly simple to use if you have some basic knowledge of Python 3.
There’s some simple boilerplate to it.

import pyttxs3
engine=pyttxs3.init()
engine.say("Some text to be spoken...")
engine.runAndWait()

import pyttxs3 and engine=pyttxs3.init()
import and create the text to speech engine.
engine.say("Some text to be spoken...") Tells the model
to say the text but won’t work until engine.runAndWait() is called.

So Here’s the code-

import pyttsx3
import speech_recognition as sr
from datetime import datetime
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say("Hello Master, How can i help You")
engine.runAndWait()

now = datetime.now()
current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")

def takecommand():
    command = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        print("Listning....")
        command.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
        command.pause_thresold = 1
        audio = command.listen(source)

        try:
            print("Recognizing....")
            query = command.recognize_google(audio,language="en-in")
            print("You said", query)
            if 'current time ' in query:
                engine = pyttsx3.init()
                engine.say(current_time)
                engine.runAndWait()
        except Exception as Error:
            print("error",Error)

takecommand()

After you run it, it will say something, then if you say ‘Current Time Please’, it will tell you the time.

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