Unlike Music and Photos, there’s no option to curate your own library, store it on another volume, or access its contents yourself. It then stores them, along with all my other audiobooks, in a viper’s nest buried in the private container of not the Books app, but a secret book service named BKAgentService, in a path something like ~/Library/Containers//Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/Audiobooks/sha1-98b188d2bf0f7694aeafb3ac3650088f054cf2ed/myBook.m4b. That will even rip them from disc if you wish, but as it isn’t aware that each audiobook consists of a great many tracks, it stupidly turns every individual track into a separate audiobook. Now Apple wants us to buy all our audiobooks from its store, and play them in the Books app. When Macs still came with internal optical drives, it was often easier just to play audiobooks from their original discs. So I have these huge playlists which sort of work. I ‘ripped’ many, but never had the time or patience to plod through iTunes relabelling every track. My audio CD set of the complete series of those radio programmes is one of my most treasured audiobooks, one no longer available from online stores such as Apple’s.Īudiobooks have never been first class citizens in macOS, and those only available from third parties, particularly on CDs, are among the most disenfranchised. I didn’t realise it at the time, but in the summer of 1996 I would meet its author to talk about our common ground of Macs. engine.save_to_file(text, 'audio.mp3') engine.There are few events in 1978 that I can recollect as clearly, but at 1030 on the evening of Wednesday 8 March I listened to the first broadcast episode of Douglas Adams’ radio series A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Use the below method to save the audio output (audiobook) to the mp3 file. volume = engine.getProperty('volume') print(volume) tProperty('volume',1.0) Saving Voice to Audio file: The volume ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 is the min volume and 1 being the max volume. Use setProperty(‘volume’, x) to change the speaker’s volume. Initialize the pyttsx3 library, and use getProperty(‘volume’) to get the current volume. voices = speaker.getProperty('voices') print(voices) #changing index, changes voices, 0 for male tProperty('voice', voices.id) #changing index, changes voices, 1 for female tProperty('voice', voices.id) Volume: Change the speaker's gender using setProperty(‘voice’, voice.id), where x=0 for male and x=1 for female. Initialize the pyttsx3 library, and use getProperty(‘voice’) to get the current gender of the speaker. # Initialize the speaker speaker = pyttsx3.init() rate = speaker.getProperty('rate') print(rate) tProperty('rate', 125) Voice: Change the rate of speaking using setProperty(‘rate’, x), where x=100 being normal speed (1x). Initialize the pyttsx3 library, and use getProperty(‘rate’) to get the current speaking rate. You can tune the speed and volume of speech, and change the voice-over from male to female and vice-versa, depending on your requirements. for page_num in range(pdfReader.numPages): text = pdfReader.getPage(page_num).extractText() speaker.say(text) nAndWait() speaker.stop() Full Implementation:Ĭhanging Voice, Rate, and Volume of pyttsx3 speaker: Loop the process for every page in the pdf file and stop the pyttsx3 speaker engine as last. It will read out loud the text from the pdf page. Loop through each page, by reading the text and feeding it to the pyttsx3 speaker engine. import pyttsx3 speaker = pyttsx3.init() 3) Play the Audiobook:Įxtract the text from the pdf file page by page using the PyPDF2 implementation. Text that we are reading from a pdf file using the pypdf2 library is fed as an input to the text-to-speech engine. Python has a library pyttsx3, that is capable to convert text-to-speech offline. import PyPDF2 pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open('file.pdf', 'rb')) 2) Initialize Speaker: We are using this library to split the pdf file page by page, read the text on each page, and send the text to the next layer/step.
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