I have not been able to get save_to_file to work on Win10. Please provide a complete, but minimal example. I am a Python novice. Apparently, many others are having the same problem. Downloaded pyttsx3 2019-Oct-18.

[Daedal07]

I have not been able to get save_to_file to work on Win10. Please provide a complete, but minimal example. I am a Python novice. Apparently, many others are having the same problem. Downloaded pyttsx3 2019-Oct-18. Thanks. pyttsx3_2file_fails.txt

Originally posted by @spetr0s in https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3/issues/7#issuecomment-545178178

[blueye4k]

Same here. Please someone help!

[GNUGradyn]

save_to_file does not seem to be outputting anything at all.

Python 3.7.5 (tags/v3.7.5:5c02a39a0b, Oct 15 2019, 00:11:34) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyttsx3
>>> engine = pyttsx3.init()
>>> engine.save_to_file("This is a test!", "test")  

This does not create a file, does not output anything in the console, or appear to do anything at all

[chintan70-1]

Same

[Themis3000]

@GNUGradyn's code seems to do absolutely nothing for me as well

I've tried running their code in python 3.6 and 3.7.6 on windows 10 to no avail

[alexander-e-andrews]

In order to get save_to_file to work, I had to install the package from github instead of pip: pip install git+git://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3.git

Then my example code:

import pyttsx3
import os
fullPath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "bar.wav")

engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.save_to_file("Foo bar bar foo bar", fullPath)
engine.runAndWait()

[Themis3000]

Using the method that @alexander-e-andrews used didn't work for me, I am unable to initilizepyttsx3. The following code produced this error for me: https://pastebin.com/4JyTqMFZ

import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()

[alexander-e-andrews]

Try looking at this thread: https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3/issues/29 Especially https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3/issues/29#issuecomment-445073967 If I had to guess python cannot find a voice engine on your computer.

[nateshmbhat]

"""Saving Voice to a file"""

On linux make sure that 'espeak' and 'ffmpeg' are installed

engine.save_to_file('Hello World', 'test.mp3') engine.runAndWait()

[sachin-acharya-projects]

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init("sapi5")
voices = engine.getProperty("voices")[0]
engine.setProperty('voice', voices)
text = 'Your Text'
engine.save_to_file(text, 'name.mp3')
engine.runAndWait() # Donot forget to add this line

[shakhrom96bs]

I have also desame Problem with engine.save_to_file -> attributeError: 'Engine' object has no attribute 'save_to_file' Please can help somebody

[madhuwantha]

This worked with .wav file form

```
engine = pyttsx3.init()
string = \"Some test\"
voices = engine.getProperty("voices")[0]
engine.setProperty('voice', voices)
# engine.say(string)
engine.save_to_file(string, 'speech.wav')
engine.runAndWait()

[gaurav-95]

@sachin-acharya-projects Thanks a lot, the last line seems essential for it to run!

[narspt]

I have the same problem, curiously if I have a say() after save_to_file() it works fine but if I omit the say() or have it before save_to_file() then no file is created at all, makes me think that maybe for some reason it does't wait (despite runAndWait() is there) and script finish before saving the file?

[jonfon96]

I have the same issue when I run my script it seems to overwrite the mp3 with the last block of data. I watch as the mp3 is created and look at the size as it grows then shrinks. I try to move the speak,runAndWait() outside of the for loop but I do not see the mp3 grow as I see when I run it with gTTS but since there is a cap on access I would like to use this option. the end result is I have an mp3 with 1k in size and I have 80 page pdf I want to convert.

import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2

pdfObj = open('ch5.pdf','rb')

pdfreader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(pdfObj)

speaker = pyttsx3.init() voices = speaker.getProperty('voices') speaker.setProperty('voice',voices[2].id) speaker.setProperty('rate', 150)

for page_num in range(len(pdfreader.pages)): text = pdfreader.pages[page_num].extract_text() ## extracting text from the PDF cleaned_text = text.strip().replace('\n',' ') ## Removes unnecessary spaces and break lines print(cleaned_text)

speaker.say(cleaned_text) ## Let The Speaker Speak The Text

#os.rename('temp', "ch3.mp3")
speaker.save_to_file(cleaned_text,'ch5.mp3')  ## Saving Text In a audio file 'story.mp3'

speaker.runAndWait() # we will move this outside the for loop to see if it works.

speaker.stop()

[jonfon96]

I tried to swap the "say function" line with the "save_to_file" line but I still get small blocks of data saved to the mp3 but it still does not append to make the mp3 grow but keeps it small and overwrites this data.

[jonfon96]

Hello All I was able to adapt a gtts script to pytts script and use it function call but what I found it stops at 21 pages even after I remove some of the new lines to make is stremline. I still have an issue with it not converting the whole file to mp3. if someone know how I can get pass this that will help.

import PyPDF2 import pyttsx3 from gtts import gTTS import os

speaker = pyttsx3.init()

def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path): text = "" with open(pdf_path, "rb") as f: reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(f) num_pages = len(reader.pages)

num_pages = reader.numPages # was replaced

    for page_num in range(num_pages):
        page = reader.pages[page_num]
        text += page.extract_text() 
        clean_text = text.strip().replace('\n',' ') # added this line to clean the spaces and new lines. 
return clean_text

def convert_text_to_speech(text, output_path): speaker.save_to_file(text, output_path) speaker.runAndWait() speaker.stop() return output_path

def pdf_to_speech(pdf_path, output_path): text = extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path)
convert_text_to_speech(text, output_path)

if name == "main": pdf_file = "ch5.pdf" # Path to your PDF file output_file = "ch5.mp3" # Output path for the generated speech file pdf_to_speech(pdf_file, output_file) print(f"PDF converted to speech. Output saved to: {output_file}")