Creating a text to speech server w/ Python

A short little article on using Python and MQTT server to send messages to a text to speech server on my MacBook Air.

I was looking for a nice sounding text to speech agent one day and started to do a little research. I tried Amazon Polly and Google Text to Speech. They were ok to use but they require me to connect to their services. Then I realized that the voices that Apple includes in all copies of MacOS X. The command on MacOS was super simple – “say -v {voice} {string to say}”. After playing with the say command I found the right voice – A nice aussie voice named Karen.

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