Could you give a python example?

[Chr0my1702]

Could you give a python example as I would like to know how to do it. I'm not fully understanding the requests.

[tgwaste]

Here is a python example:

Example Usage: ./playht-example.py -t 'hello world' -o test.wav

There is probably a better way to download than to issue a system call to curl but I wrote this quick and havnt looked into that yet.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json, optparse, os, requests, sys, time

api = 'https://play.ht/api/v1/convert'
status = 'https://play.ht/api/v1/articleStatus'
userid = 'YOUR_USER_ID'
secret = 'YOUR_SECRET'

parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage='usage: %prog [options]')
parser.add_option('-n', '--narration', dest='narration', type='string', default='customerservice', help='narration style')
parser.add_option('-o', '--outputfile', dest='outputfile', type='string', default='', help='output wav file')
parser.add_option('-s', '--silence', dest='silence', action='store_true', default=False, help='trim silence from end')
parser.add_option('-t', '--text', dest='text', type='string', default='', help='text to say')
parser.add_option('-v', '--voice', dest='voice', type='string', default='en-US-JennyNeural', help='voice to use')
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

if len(sys.argv[1:]) == 0:
  parser.print_help()
  sys.exit(1)

headers = {
  'Authorization' : secret,
  'X-User-ID' : userid,
  'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
}

payload = {
  'voice': options.voice, # en-US-JennyNeural en-US-AriaNeural
  'content': [options.text],
  'narrationStyle': options.narration, # newscast-formal, newscast-casual, customerservice, chat, cheerful, empathetic
  'trimSilence': options.silence
}

result = requests.post(api, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

if 'transcriptionId' not in result.json():
  print('did not receive a transcriptionId')
  sys.exit(1)

tid = result.json()['transcriptionId']

print(json.dumps(result.json(), sort_keys = False, indent = 4))

tries = 0

while True:
  result = requests.get(status + '?transcriptionId=' + tid, headers=headers)

  if 'audioUrl' not in result.json():
    tries += 1
    if tries >= 5:
      print('max attempts reached, aborting')
      sys.exit(1)
    time.sleep(2)
    continue

  print(json.dumps(result.json(), sort_keys = False, indent = 4))

  audiourl = result.json()['audioUrl']

  curl = 'curl -s --output "%s" "%s"' % (options.outputfile, audiourl)

  os.system(curl)

  break

[Josode]

Could you ELI5 how to use this to get python to output speech? I'm not understanding it fully