Narakeet Text to Speech Streaming API example in Python

This repository provides a quick example demonstrating how to access the Narakeet streaming Text to Speech API from Python.

The example sends a request to generate audio from text and saves it output.m4a in the local directory.

The example uses the requests python library to send HTTPS requests to the Narakeet API.

Note that Narakeet also has a text to speech API to generate long content, suitable for larger conversion tasks. See the Long Content Text to Speech API Example for more information on how to use that.

Prerequisites

To use this example, you will need Python (3.7 or more recent), and an API key for Narakeet.

Running the example using Docker

You can run the example using Docker without a local Python installation, using the following command line (replace YOUR_NARAKEET_API_KEY with your Narakeet API key):

make run NARAKEET_API_KEY=YOUR_NARAKEET_API_KEY

Running the example without Docker

1. export and set the environment variable NARAKEET_API_KEY with your API key, or edit tts.py and add your API key on line 2, instead of reading the environment variable. You can optionally modify the voice and text parameters on lines 2 and 3, which control the text to speech synthesis voice and the text sent to the API for synthesis.
2. run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required libraries
3. run python tts.py to create the output audio.

More information

Check out https://www.narakeet.com/docs/automating/text-to-speech-api/ for more information on the Narakeet Text to Speech API