Text to speech is the generation of speech synthesized from the text. The technology is used to communicate with users when reading a screen is not possible or impractical. This not only opens up apps and information to use in new ways but can also make the world more accessible to people who cannot read text on a screen. In this article, I will take you through building your TTS with Python.

The technology behind the TTS has evolved over the past few decades. Using natural language processing, it is now possible to produce very natural speech that includes changes in pitch, speed, pronunciation and inflexion.

Text to Speech with Python

I will simply start with importing all the necessary libraries that we need for this task to create a program that takes the text of an article online and converts it into speech:

#Import the libraries
from newspaper import Article
import nltk
from gtts import gTTS
import os

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