List of Figures

Figure No. Title Page No.

1. Block Diagram of Iterative Waterfall Model
2. Block Diagram of Text to Speech Converter
Flow Diagram of Text to Speech Converter and
3. Process Diagram
4. Screenshots from the Project
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ABSTRACT:

Text - to - speech conversion software project is windows based application that reads a text
file to the user. The software reads a text file and associated pronunciations in its temporary
database. The program then reads an entire word to the user. The software can be effectively
used to help read the text document for the user so that the user does not constantly need to
look at the screen and read the entire document.

Text to speech converter is a recent software project that allows even the visually challenged
to read and understand various documents. The blinds cannot read a text of documents, so
this software can be an assistant to them who would read out those text for them. It can also
be a great help for those who cannot speak. The person can simply type what he/she wants to
say and the software would give a voice to them by speaking what they wanted to say. So,
this software is not just an advancement towards the future development but also a boon for
those who cannot speak and see.

A text-to-speech system (or "engine") is composed of two parts:[3] a front-end and a back-end.

The front-end has two major tasks. First, it converts raw text containing symbols like
numbers and abbreviations into the equivalent of written-out words. This process is often
called text normalization, pre-processing or tokenization. The front-end then assigns phonetic
transcriptions to each word, and divides and marks the text into prosodic units,
like phrases, clauses, and sentences. The process of assigning phonetic transcriptions to
words is called text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Phonetic transcriptions
and prosody information together make up the symbolic linguistic representation that is
output by the front-end. The back-end—often referred to as the synthesizer—then converts
the symbolic linguistic representation into sound. In certain systems, this part includes the
computation of the target prosody (pitch contour, phoneme durations), which is then imposed
on the output speech.

INTRODUCTION:
1.1 About Project

Text - to - speech conversion software project is windows based application that reads a text
or paragraph to the user. The software reads a copied text or entered text and associated
pronunciations in its temporary database. The program then reads an entire word to the user.
The softwarecan be effectively used to help read the text, entered text for the user so that the
user does not constantly need to look at the screen and read the entire paragraph or text.

Text to speech converter is a recent software project that allows even the visually challenged
to read and understand various documents. The blinds cannot read a document, so this
software can be an assistant to them who would read out those documents for them. It can
also be a great help for those who cannot speak. The person can simply type what he/she
wants to say and the software would give a voice to them by speaking what they wanted to
say. The user just have to select the Interactive mode and then write what he wants to say in
the text area and then he can easily express what he wanted to say by simply clicking the
convert button. So, this software is not just an advancement towards the future development
but also a boon for those who cannot speak and see. This technology can also be utilized for
various purposes, e.g. car navigation, announcements in railway stations, response services in
telecommunications, and e-mail reading. Thus, if we think more innovatively, we can easily
get more applications out of it.

TTS works with nearly every personal digital device, including computers, smartphones and
tablets. All kinds of text files can be read aloud, including Word and Pages documents. Even
online web pages can be read aloud. The voice in TTS is computer-generated, and reading
speed can usually be sped up or slowed down. This software can has a quality in which the
voice quality varies, but some voices sound human. This feature is specifically designed to
give a real feel to the voice. There are even computer-generated voices that sound like
children speaking. The software designed uses the computerized female voice. Many TTS
tools highlight words as they are read aloud. This allows kids to see text and hear it at the
same time. The designed software actually allows the accomplishment of this feature we have
given the option of converting text to speech.

 A text-to-speech system (or "engine") is composed of two parts: [3] a front-end and a back-

end. The front-end has two major tasks. First, it converts raw text containing symbols like
numbers and abbreviations into the equivalent of written-out words. This process is often
called text normalization, pre-processing, or tokenization. The front-end then
assigns phonetic transcriptions to each word, and divides and marks the text into prosodic
units, like phrases, clauses, and sentences. The process of assigning phonetic transcriptions to
words is called text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Phonetic transcriptions
and prosody information together make up the symbolic linguistic representation that is
output by the front-end. The back-end—often referred to as the synthesizer—then converts
the symbolic linguistic representation into sound. In certain systems, this part includes the
computation of the target prosody (pitch contour, phoneme durations),[4] which is then
imposed on the output speech.

ABOUT LANGUAGE:
The language used for the project text – to speech conversion is python. Python is a high-
level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is designed to
be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages use
punctuation, and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.

 Python is Interpreted − Python is processed at runtime by the interpreter. You do not

need to compile your program before executing it. This is similar to PERL and PHP.
 Python is Interactive − You can actually sit at a Python prompt and interact with the
interpreter directly to write your programs.
 Python is Object-Oriented − Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of
programming that encapsulates code within objects.
 Python is a Beginner's Language − Python is a great language for the beginner-level
programmers and supports the development of a wide range of applications from
simple text processing to WWW browsers to games.

History of Python
Python was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the
National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.

Python is derived from many other languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, C++, Algol-68,
Small Talk, and Unix shell and other scripting languages.

Python is copyrighted. Like Perl, Python source code is now available under the GNU
General Public License (GPL).

Python is now maintained by a core development team at the institute, although Guido van
Rossum still holds a vital role in directing its progress.

Python Version History

Currently, PSF supports two versions, Python 2.x & Python 3.x. Python 2.0 was released in
October 2000 and includes a large number of features. PSF continues to support version
Python 2 because a large body of existing code could not be forward ported to Python 3. So,
they will support Python 2 until 2020.

Python 3.0 was released on December 3rd, 2008. It was designed to rectify certain flaws in
earlier version. This version is not completely backward-compatible with previous versions.
However, many of its major features have since been back-ported to the Python 2.6.x and
2.7.x version series. Releases of Python 3 include 2 to 3 utilities to facilitate the automation
of translation of Python 2 code to Python 3.

Python Features
Python's features include −

 Easy-to-learn − Python has few keywords, simple structure, and a clearly defined
syntax. This allows the student to pick up the language quickly.
 Easy-to-read − Python code is more clearly defined and visible to the eyes.
 Easy-to-maintain − Python's source code is fairly easy-to-maintain.
 A broad standard library − Python's bulk of the library is very portable and cross-
platform compatible on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh.
 Interactive Mode − Python has support for an interactive mode which allows
interactive testing and debugging of snippets of code.
 Portable − Python can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same
interface on all platforms.
 Extendable − You can add low-level modules to the Python interpreter. These
modules enable programmers to add to or customize their tools to be more efficient.
 Databases − Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.
 GUI Programming − Python supports GUI applications that can be created and
ported to many system calls, libraries and windows systems, such as Windows MFC,
Macintosh, and the X Window system of Unix.
 Scalable − Python provides a better structure and support for large programs than
shell scripting.

Apart from the above-mentioned features, Python has a big list of good features, few are
listed below −

 It supports functional and structured programming methods as well as OOP.

 It can be used as a scripting language or can be compiled to byte-code for building
large applications.
 It provides very high-level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.
 It supports automatic garbage collection.
 It can be easily integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA, and Java.

Python Advantages
 Python provides enhanced readability. For that purpose, uniform indents are used to
delimit blocks of statements instead of curly brackets, like in many languages such as
C, C++ and Java.

 Python is free and distributed as open-source software. A large programming

community is actively involved in the development and support of Python libraries for
various applications such as web frameworks, mathematical computing and data
science.

 Python is a cross-platform language. It works equally on different OS platforms like

Windows, Linux, Mac OSX etc. Hence Python applications can be easily ported
across OS platforms.

 Python supports multiple programming paradigms including imperative, procedural,

object-oriented and functional programming styles.

 Python is an extensible language. Additional functionality (other than what is

provided in the core language) can be made available through modules and packages
written in other languages (C, C++, Java etc)

 A standard DB-API for database connectivity has been defined in Python. It can be
enabled using any data source (Oracle, MySQL, SQLite etc.) as a backend to the
Python program for storage, retrieval and processing of data.

 Standard distribution of Python contains the Tkinter GUI toolkit, which is the
implementation of popular GUI library called Tcl/Tk. An attractive GUI can be
constructed using Tkinter. Many other GUI libraries like Qt, GTK, WxWidgets etc.
are also ported to Python.

 Python can be integrated with other popular programming technologies like C, C++,
Java, ActiveX and CORBA.

 of the rapid development of this feature, Python is a very popular choice from image
processing.
FEASIBILITY STUDY:

 Economic Feasibility
The text-to-speech conversion software is a very affordable software which requires
the use of python only. There is no special need of any recorder or any other gadget or
equipment that can act as an overhead in the cost of this software.
 Technical Feasibility
This software only requires the use of python which is already widespread and used.
Youtube which is used by billions of users has some parts of it implemented using
python. So the only technology required in this project is already available and
familiar. Hence, this software is technologically feasible
 Operational Feasibility
The software would be very easy to use and is designed only to help the people
especially, the ones who cannot speak and also those who are visually challenged.
This software would be a great help to them to live a normal life.
External Interface Requirements

1 User Interfaces
This application includes GUI standards or product family style guides that are
to be followed, screen layout constraints, standard buttons and functions that
will appear on every screen, error message display standards, and so on.
2 Hardware Interfaces
Processor : Intel i3 and above
RAM : 128 MB and above
Hard disk : 5 GB and above
Monitor : CRT OR LCD monitor
Keyboard : Normal or Multimedia
Mouse : Compatible mouse

3 Software Interfaces

Python IDLE - Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment

for writing programs. IDLE has two main window types, the Shell window
and the Editor window. It is possible to have multiple editor windows
simultaneously. The shell is used for the construction of the project.
Tkinter library – Tkinter is a Python binding to the Tk GUI toolkit. It is the
standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit, and is Python's de
facto standard GUI.
Operating system used is Windows10.
Pyttsx3 library - Pyttsx is a good text to speech conversion library in python
but it was written only in python2 until now ! Even some fair amount of
googling didn’t help much to get tts library compatible with pyton3.
SRS

Introduction

Purpose

Among the many definition that could be given of text – to – speech, that describes it as a
way of having computer audibly communicate information to the user is probably the most
relevant within the context of this statement. In situations where visual feedback is
inadequate or even impossible, audible feedback may be an essential feature; in many
situations it may just add extra value to a product. Generally, text – to – speech provides a
very valuable and flexible alternative for digital – audio recordings where :
 Recordings are too expensive.
 Disk storage is insufficient to store the recordings.
 The application does not know ahead of time what it will need to speak.
 The information varies too much to record and store all the alternatives.

Document Conventions

To prepare this SRS we had used the lettering style of Times New Roman and font size for
sub headings is 14 with bold. The matter which is mentioned in this SRS is 12 with a lettering
style Times New Roman. Then headings are of lettering style Times New Roman with Font
Size 16 with bold letters. Then the important points are mentioned in italics.

Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions

This SRS can be read by all the developers. The rest of the part of SRS mentions the benefits
of our project, how to use the project, how the project was developed, what are the major
things we have taken into consideration.

Project Scope

The term “Text – to - Speech” or TTS for short, refers to the process by which plain text is
converted into digital audio and then “spoken”. This speaking can be in the form of actually
sending the audio through a computer’s speakers (or other capable device), or simply saving
the computer audio for later playback.
For the most part, all TTS conversion engine can be broken out into three methods used to
convert phonemes (the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying
distinction in meaning, such as the m of mat and the b of bat in English) into audible sound.
The supplied Microsoft Speech engines used the second method. The three methods are
described in the following paragraphs.

Overall Description

Product Perspective

Text – to – speech program that lets you type – in any English or Spanish text and then plays
it as an audio stream.

 Instantly convert desired text to audio.

 Converting TEXT into speech format.
 Supported language: English.

Product Feature and developer application

Different implementations of text – to – speech system exist. This section discusses some of
the concepts on which this systems are built. Generally, a text – to – speech system can be
broken down into three parts: a linguistic, a phonetic and an acoustic part. First, an ordinary
text is input to the system. A linguistic module converts this text into a phonetic
representation. From this representation, the phonetic processing module calculates the
speech parameters. Finally, an acoustic module uses these parameters to generate a synthetic
speech signal.

User Classes and Characteristics

Using this product user can listen his entered text or selected text. He or she can listen given
input file text which can be txt, pdf format.

 User can listen the entered text in the interactive mode.

 User can also listen to the text written in an image.

The Operating Environment

Software Requirements used are Windows XP and any other latest editions, Python
Technologies.

 Hardware Requirements used are P4processor, 512MB of Main Memory > >
 (RAM) and 40GB hard disk and base memory.

Design and Implementation Constraints

Design constraints developers. All modules are coded thoroughly based on requirements. The
software is designed in such a way that the user can easily interact with the screen. Software
is designed in such a way that it can be extended into real time business.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE USED

The software development lifecycle used (SDLC) used for this project was the iterative
waterfall model. In a practical software development project, the classical waterfall model is
hard to use. So, Iterative waterfall model was thought of as incorporating the necessary
changes to the classical waterfall model to make it usable in practical software development
projects. It is almost same as the classical waterfall model except some changes are made to
increase the efficiency of the software development. This gave us the required flexibility of
changes.

The iterative waterfall model provides feedback paths from every phase to its preceding
phases, which is the main difference from the classical waterfall model.

Feedback paths introduced by the iterative waterfall model are shown in the figure below.
When errors are detected at some later phase, these feedback paths allow correcting errors
committed by programmers during some phase. The feedback paths allowed us to rework on
the phase in which errors were committed and these changes were reflected in the later
phases. But, there is no feedback path to the stage – feasibility study, because once a project
has been taken, does not give up the project easily.
It is good to detect errors in the same phase in which they are committed. It reduces the effort
and time required to correct the errors.

Phases in Iterative Waterfall model are –

 Feasibility Study – Feasibility Study is an assessment of the practicality of a

proposed project or system. A feasibility study aims to objectively and rationally
uncover the strengths and weaknesses of an existing business or proposed venture,
opportunities and threats present in the natural environment, the resources required
to carry through, and ultimately the prospects for success. In its simplest terms, the
two criteria to judge feasibility are cost required and value to be attained. A well-
designed feasibility study should provide a historical background of the business or
project, a description of the product or service, accounting statements, details of
the operations and management, marketing research and policies, financial data,
legal requirements and tax obligations.Generally, feasibility studies precede technical
development and project implementation. A feasibility study evaluates the project's
potential for success; therefore, perceived objectivity is an important factor in the
credibility of the study for potential investors and lending institutions. It must
therefore be conducted with an objective, unbiased approach to provide information
upon which decisions can be based
 Requirement analysis and specification -The first phase involves understanding
what you need to design and what is its function, purpose etc. Unless you know what
you want to design, you cannot proceed with the project. Even a small code such as
adding two integer numbers, needs to be written with the output in mind. Here, in
this stage, the requirements which the software is going to satisfy are listed and
detailed. These requirements are then presented to the team of programmers. If this
phase is completed successfully, it ensures a smooth working of the remaining
phases, as the programmer is not burdened to make changes at later stages because of
changes in requirements. As per the requirements, the software and hardware needed
for the proper completion of the project is analyzed in this phase. Right from
 deciding which computer language should be used for designing the software, to the
database system that can be used for the smooth functioning of the software, such
features are decided at this stage.
 Design − The algorithm or flowchart of the program or the software code to be
written in the next stage, is created now. It is a very important stage, which relies on
the previous two stages for its proper implementation. The proper design at this
stage, ensures a execution in the next stage. If during the design phase, it is noticed
that there are some more requirements for designing the code, the analysis phase is
revisited and the design phase is carried out according to the new set of resources.
 Coding and Unit Testing − With the coding of the application complete, the testing
of the written code now comes into scene. Testing checks if there are any flaws in
the designed software and if the software has been designed as per the listed
specifications. A proper execution of this stage ensures that the client interested in
the created software, will be satisfied with the finished product. If there are any
flaws, the software development process must step back to the design phase. In the
design phase, changes are implemented and then the succeeding stages of coding and
testing are again carried out.With inputs from the system design, the system is first
developed in small programs called units, which are integrated in the next phase.
Each unit is developed and tested for its functionality, which is referred to as Unit
Testing.
 Integration and System Testing − All the units developed in the implementation
phase are integrated into a system after testing of each unit. This is an important part
as the errors may not be seen in individual units but while integration of these units
there can be some errors which needs to be corrected. Post integration the entire
system is tested for any faults and failures.
 Deployment of system − Once the functional and non-functional testing is done; the
product is deployed in the customer environment or released into the market.
 Maintenance − There are some issues which come up in the client environment. To
fix those issues, patches are released. Also to enhance the product some better
versions are released. Maintenance is done to deliver these changes in the customer
environment. It is a never ending phase. Once the system is running in production
environment, problems come up. The issues that are related to the system are solved
only after deployment of the system. The problems arise from time to time and need
to be solved; hence this phase is referred as maintenance.
Phase Containment of Errors: The principle of detecting errors as close to their points of
commitment as possible is known as Phase containment of errors.
The choice for a software development lifecycle is generally made on the basis of its
advantages and disadvantages. For the text of speech converter the SDLC (Software
Development Lifecycle) chosen was Iterative Waterfall Model was chosen as the
disadvantages were overpowered by the advantages of the model making it more suitable for
this project.
Advantages of Iterative Waterfall Model
 Feedback Path: In the classical waterfall model, there are no feedback paths, so there
is no mechanism for error correction. But in iterative waterfall model feedback path
from one phase to its preceding phase allows correcting the errors that are committed
and these changes are reflected in the later phases.
 Simple: Iterative waterfall model is very simple to understand and use. That’s why it is
one of the most widely used software development models.
Drawbacks of Iterative Waterfall Model
 Difficult to incorporate change requests: The major drawback of the iterative
waterfall model is that all the requirements must be clearly stated before starting of the
development phase. Customer may change requirements after some time but the
iterative waterfall model does not leave any scope to incorporate change requests that
are made after development phase starts.
 Incremental delivery not supported: In the iterative waterfall model, the full software
is completely developed and tested before delivery to the customer. There is no scope
for any intermediate delivery. So, customers have to wait long for getting the software.
 Overlapping of phases not supported: Iterative waterfall model assumes that one
phase can start after completion of the previous phase, But in real projects, phases may
overlap to reduce the effort and time needed to complete the project.
 Risk handling not supported: Projects may suffer from various types of risks. But,
Iterative waterfall model has no mechanism for risk handling.
 Limited customer interactions: Customer interaction occurs at the start of the project
at the time of requirement gathering and at project completion at the time of software
delivery. These fewer interactions with the customers may lead to many problems as the
finally developed software may differ from the customers’ actual requirements.
Methodology of Work
Different libraries used in the project are:

Tkinter - Tkinter is a Python binding to the Tk GUI toolkit. It is the standard Python

interface to the Tk GUI toolkit,and is Python's de facto standard GUI.Tkinter is included with
standard Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X installs of Python. The
name Tkinter comes from Tk interface. Tkinter was written by Fredrik Lundh.Tkinter is free
software released under a Python license. As with most other modern Tk bindings, Tkinter is
implemented as a Python wrapper around a complete Tcl interpreter embedded in the Python
interpreter. Tkinter calls are translated into Tcl commands which are fed to this embedded
interpreter, thus making it possible to mix Python and Tcl in a single application. Python 2.7
and Python 3.1 incorporate the "themed Tk" ("ttk") functionality of Tk 8.5. This allows Tk
widgets to be easily themed to look like the native desktop environment in which the
application is running, thereby addressing a long-standing criticism of Tk (and hence of
Tkinter). There are several popular GUI library alternatives available, such
as wxPython, PyQt (PySide), Pygame, Pyglet, and PyGTK

Creating a GUI application using Tkinter is an easy task. All you need to do is
perform the following steps −

 Import the Tkinter module.
 Create the GUI application main window.
 Add one or more of the above-mentioned widgets to the GUI
application.
 Enter the main event loop to take action against each event triggered by
the user.

Pyttsx3 –Pyttsx is a good text to speech conversion library in python but it was written only
in python2 until now ! Even some fair amount of googling didn’t help much to get tts library
compatible with pyton3.

There is however , one library gTTS which works perfectly in python3 but it needs internet
connection to work since it relies on google to get the audio data.ButPyttsx is completely
offline and works seemlesly and has multiple tts-engine support.The codes in this repos are
slightly modified version of the pyttsx module of python 2.x and is a clone from
westonpace’s repo. The purpose of creating this repo is to help those who want to have an
offline tts lib for Python3 and don’t want to port it from python2 to python3 themselves.

Usage
import pyttsx3;

engine = pyttsx3.init();

engine.say(“I will speak this text”);

engine.runAndWait();

The development of a software is not an easy or one day task. It requires a lot of time and
discussion where the real need for the software is considered and analysed . The software was
first tested for feasibility then requirements were specified and analysed. Then designing was
done followed by coding, and testing. The Iterative Waterfall Model was used in order to
provide feedback and make necessary changes even after the completion of a module. The
detailed description of the steps followed while the development of the project as described
as follows:

 The first step to be considered for the development of a project is the need of project
as mentioned earlier. First, we considered the reason behind making this project. As
mentioned earlier, the main goal behind choosing this text-to-speech converter is its
feature of helping the people. This software is helpful for the visually challenged
people to read and understand various documents and those who cannot speak would
have a voice. This technology can also be utilized for various purposes, e.g. car
navigation, announcements in railway stations, response services in
telecommunications, and e-mail reading.
 Then requirement analysis was done where we analyze what all we require for this
project and what would be the best technology for it. We have chosen python for our
project as it is widely used nowadays and there won’t be any problem in acceptance
of this technology. Moreover, this project would be a great help for teaching purpose,
and for those who are blind and cannot speak by giving a voice and an eye for
reading. All these gave us a green signal to move ahead towards the development of
the project. Then we thought of a system that would speak what is typed by a user and
this would be a great help for those who cannot speak. The blinds cannot read the
documents and sometimes the lessons needs to be dictated in a class, giving us the
need for reading from documents. The text on various signals and images also needs
to be read which gave us the need of reading from the images. All these requirements
showed us a way towards the developments of text to speech converter with three
modules – first, Interactive Mode, that can convert the input typed by a user, second,
 Convert from File, which would convert text from text and pdf files, and third,
Convert from Image, that would convert the text from image.
 Then a design was be prepared where we demonstrated our expected design, the
design which specify how our project is going to look and how the modules would be
represented to the user. This was the most time consuming part of the project
development as the User Interface is an essential element of any software. If a
software is not convenient for a user then the software is not considered good. So
proper GUI was to be created that would be simple to use and should provide the
efficient output.
 Then the design was then corrected and modified manier times according to the
suggestions of our friends and mentor and all the changes were meant to make the
system more efficient and for making it look more attractive. Colors were modified
the functionalities were added and the interface was more simplified to provide the
ease to use.
 After that, the implementation was done using python which was the coding for the
project. The project was divided into modules, as mentioned earlier, where first
module converted the written text into speech and second module convert files text
into speech which is further divided into conversion of text and pdf files and the third
module, last one convert the text in an image to speech. The testing of each module
after its coding was done. Following it, testing was done where all the errors or
unexpected results are corrected again by coding while integration of the modules.
The new additions were also be done. The overall system was again tested for its
correct functioning. Thus, we used the Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and System
Testing for the project Development so that the correctness of individual module and
overall system can be verified.
 Then after the implementation and testing of the software, we got it tested by our
friends to know about their reviews and the suggestion were welcomed and the
required modifications were done and again got tested.
DESIGN

Block Diagram
Flow Diagram
Process Diagram
CODE:

import tkinter as tk

from tkinter import *

import pyttsx3

engine=pyttsx3.init()

def speaknow():

engine.say(textv.get())

engine.runAndWait()

engine.stop()

root=Tk()

textv=StringVar()

obj=LabelFrame(root,text="Text To Speech",font=20,bd=1)

obj.pack(fill="both",expand="yes",padx=10,pady=10)

lbl=Label(obj,text="Text",font=30)

lbl.pack(side=tk.LEFT,padx=5)

text=Entry(obj,textvariable=textv,font=40,width=20,bd=5)

text.pack(side=tk.LEFT,padx=10)

btn=Button(obj,text="Speak",font=20,bg="yellow",fg="blue",command=speaknow)

btn.pack(side=tk.LEFT,padx=10)

root.title("Text To Speech")

root.geometry("400x200")
root.resizable(False,False)

root.mainloop()
SCREENSHOTS:

The above screenshot displays the home screen for the text to speech converter. This page
provides three options for the user to convert text to speech – first, interactive mode that
converts the copied or typed text.

After selecting interactive mode the above frame opens up where the user can paste a copied
text or type text in the text area provided and this typed or copied text is converted to speech
when the user clicks on the submit button.
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

Text - to - speech conversion software project is windows based application that reads a text
file to the user. The software reads a text file or entered text or the image selected and
associated pronunciations in its temporary database. The program then reads an entire word
to the user. The softwarecan be effectively used to help read the text, pdf documents or image
text or entered text for the user so that the user does not constantly need to look at the screen
and read the entire document or image or text.

Text to speech converter is a recent software project that allows even the visually challenged
to read and understand various documents. The blinds cannot read a document, so this
software can be an assistant to them who would read out those documents for them. It can
also be a great help for those who cannot speak. The person can simply type what he/she
wants to say and the software would give a voice to them by speaking what they wanted to
say. The user just have to select the Interactive mode and then write what he wants to say in
the text area and then he can easily express what he wanted to say by simply clicking the
convert button. So, this software is not just an advancement towards the future development
but also a boon for those who cannot speak and see. This technology can also be utilized for
various purposes, e.g. car navigation, announcements in railway stations, response services in
telecommunications, and e-mail reading. Thus, if we think more innovatively, we can easily
get more applications out of it.
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