Persian ('fa', 'fa-IR') lang support

ahmadi-akbar commented 4 years ago

hello there google officially support for Persian(Farsi) language https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages but cannot use it

error => Language not supported: fa-IR

thanks

pndurette commented 4 years ago

Hi @ahmadi-akbar, so gTTS doesn't always have the languages listed above, as it is not the same service, unfortunately—it's a paid service. Running gtts-cli --all will show you what's available. As of now, it is:

  af: Afrikaans
  ar: Arabic
  bn: Bengali
  bs: Bosnian
  ca: Catalan
  cs: Czech
  cy: Welsh
  da: Danish
  de: German
  el: Greek
  en-au: English (Australia)
  en-ca: English (Canada)
  en-gb: English (UK)
  en-gh: English (Ghana)
  en-ie: English (Ireland)
  en-in: English (India)
  en-ng: English (Nigeria)
  en-nz: English (New Zealand)
  en-ph: English (Philippines)
  en-tz: English (Tanzania)
  en-uk: English (UK)
  en-us: English (US)
  en-za: English (South Africa)
  en: English
  eo: Esperanto
  es-es: Spanish (Spain)
  es-us: Spanish (United States)
  es: Spanish
  et: Estonian
  fi: Finnish
  fr-ca: French (Canada)
  fr-fr: French (France)
  fr: French
  gu: Gujarati
  hi: Hindi
  hr: Croatian
  hu: Hungarian
  hy: Armenian
  id: Indonesian
  is: Icelandic
  it: Italian
  ja: Japanese
  jw: Javanese
  km: Khmer
  kn: Kannada
  ko: Korean
  la: Latin
  lv: Latvian
  mk: Macedonian
  ml: Malayalam
  mr: Marathi
  my: Myanmar (Burmese)
  ne: Nepali
  nl: Dutch
  no: Norwegian
  pl: Polish
  pt-br: Portuguese (Brazil)
  pt-pt: Portuguese (Portugal)
  pt: Portuguese
  ro: Romanian
  ru: Russian
  si: Sinhala
  sk: Slovak
  sq: Albanian
  sr: Serbian
  su: Sundanese
  sv: Swedish
  sw: Swahili
  ta: Tamil
  te: Telugu
  th: Thai
  tl: Filipino
  tr: Turkish
  uk: Ukrainian
  ur: Urdu
  vi: Vietnamese
  zh-cn: Chinese (Mandarin/China)
  zh-tw: Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)

You can try --nocheck in gtts-cli to skip language checking, but usually that only works for localized languages (e.g. pt-br).

I just tried with fa and it's not working, sadly:

$ gtts-cli 'test' -l fa --nocheck
Error: 404 (Not Found) from TTS API. Probable cause: Unsupported language 'fa'

ahmadi-akbar commented 4 years ago

'Web Speech Api' demo https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

i checked that and found does not support Persian lang 😢😢 @pndurette, thanks for your response 👍

Satou-art commented 4 years ago

hi but google accept the fa language and it works ok on android platform how can it be possible?

pndurette / gTTS

Persian ('fa', 'fa-IR') lang support #202