PySpeak

By: John Wyles Git: https://github.com/johnwyles/pyspeak

Python Speech Recognition, Voice Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Voice Command Engine

Requirements:

• portaudio (http://portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/tutorial_start.html)
• pyaudio (http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/compilation.html)

Setup:

• MacOS X

  • Install Homebrew if you don't already have it

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
    

  • Install portaudio and flac from Homebrew

    brew install portaudio flac
    
    brew link portaudio flac
    

• Linux

  • Ensure you have portaudio

    sudo yum -y install portaudio-devel flac-devel # for Fedora/RedHat distros
    
    sudo apt-get install libportaudio-dev libflac-dev # for Ubuntu/Debian distros
    

• Windows

  • Good luck! :)

Installation:

sudo pip install pyspeak

Usage:

usage: pyspeak [-h] [-l {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}] [-v]
               {listen,speak} ...

positional arguments:
  {listen,speak}        Subcommand for pyspeak to either listen for microphone
                        input (speech-to-text) or text input (text-to-speech)
    listen              Listen for microphone input (speech-to-text)
    speak               Listen for text input (text-to-speech

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}, --loglevel {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}
                        Log level for console output (default: INFO)
  -v, --version         Get the version number and exit (default: False)