randvoice

randvoice

prints the name of a randomly-choosen text-to-speech voice on a macOS system

Usage

Running the program without arguments will acquire a list of available voices and print a random selection from that list:

$ ./randvoice.py
Jorge

This is the interactive help text generated by the program:

usage: randvoice.py [-h] [--include-novelty] [--only-novelty] [--speak-sample] [--lang LANG] [--cc CC] [--list-voices]
                    [--verbose]

Print a randomly-chosen name from the system's available text-to-speech voice

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --include-novelty  include the set of novelty voices
  --only-novelty     only choose from the novelty voice set
  --speak-sample     speak the sample that corresponds with the selected voice
  --lang LANG        limit the voice selection to the given language
  --cc CC            limit the voice selection to the given country codes
  --list-voices      instead of printing a random voice, print the list of (optionally-filtered) voices
  --verbose          print additional detail

This is an example of using filters:

$ ./randvoice.py --include-novelty --lang en
Pipe Organ

The list of voices provided by the system is printed by the --list-voices option.

$ ./randvoice.py --list-voices
Agnes
Alex
Alice
Alva
Amelie
[...]

If you add --verbose to that option, you get a table with some more information applicable to filtering.

$ ./randvoice.py --list-voices --verbose
voice      lang cc       novelty sample
---------- ---- -------- ------- ----------------------------------------------------------
Agnes      en   US       False   Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?
Alex       en   US       False   Most people recognize me by my voice.
Alice      it   IT       False   Salve, mi chiamo Alice e sono una voce italiana.
Alva       sv   SE       False   Hej, jag heter Alva. Jag är en svensk röst.
Amelie     fr   CA       False   Bonjour, je m’appelle Amelie. Je suis une voix canadienne.
Anna       de   DE       False   Hallo, ich heiße Anna und ich bin eine deutsche Stimme.
Bruce      en   US       False   I sure like being inside this fancy computer
Carmit     he   IL       False   שלום. קוראים לי כרמית, ואני קול בשפה העברית.
Claire     nl   NL       False   Hallo, mijn naam is Claire. Ik ben een Nederlandse stem.
Damayanti  id   ID       False   Halo, nama saya Damayanti. Saya berbahasa Indonesia.
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