python programming

Tkinter’s GUI to Speak

SPEAK

We are going to make a GUI with tkinter to make the pc speak on Windows with the SAPI.SpVoice and with the module win32com. We’ve seen this code before, but now we add a GUI and later we will make something a little more complex.

First let’s import the module

from win32com.client import Dispatch

Then we make the computer able to speak connecting python to the API of the syntethic voice

s = Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")

Now we need a GUI with tkinter; we import the module and create a function to speak

import tkinter as tk

def talk(x):
    s.Speak(x.get("1.0",tk.END))

And then we add the widgets (a label, a button and a text box):

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("My Syntethic voice")
root.geometry("300x200+200+300")
label = tk.Label(root, text="ENTER TEXT BELOW")
label.pack()
text = tk.Text(root)
button = tk.Button(root, text="Click to speak", command=lambda : talk(text))
button.pack()
text.pack()
text.focus()
root.mainloop()

The entire code

from win32com.client import Dispatch
import tkinter as tk

#speak = Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
speak = Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
def talk(x):
	speak.Speak(x.get('1.0',tk.END))


root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Speak with Python")
root.geometry("300x300")
label = tk.Label(root, text="ENTER TEXT BELOW").pack()
entry = tk.Text(root)
entry.insert("1.0","Ciao")
button = tk.Button(root, text="speak", command=lambda : talk(entry))
button.pack()
entry.pack()
entry.focus()
root.mainloop()

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