# gTTS
**gTTS** (*Google Text-to-Speech*), a Python library and CLI tool to interface with Google Translate's text-to-speech API.
Write spoken `mp3` data to a file, a file-like object (bytestring) for further audio manipulation, or `stdout`.
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## Features
- Customizable speech-specific sentence tokenizer that allows for unlimited lengths of text to be read, all while keeping proper intonation, abbreviations, decimals and more;
- Customizable text pre-processors which can, for example, provide pronunciation corrections;
### Installation
$ pip install gTTS
### Quickstart
Command Line:
$ gtts-cli 'hello' --output hello.mp3
Module:
>>> from gtts import gTTS
>>> tts = gTTS('hello')
>>> tts.save('hello.mp3')
See for documentation and examples.
### Disclaimer
This project is *not* affiliated with Google or Google Cloud. Breaking upstream changes *can* occur without notice. This project is leveraging the undocumented [Google Translate](https://translate.google.com) speech functionality and is *different* from [Google Cloud Text-to-Speech](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/).
### Project
- [Questions & community](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/discussions)
- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)
- [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.rst)
### Licence
[The MIT License (MIT)](LICENSE) Copyright © 2014-2024 Pierre Nicolas Durette & [Contributors](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/graphs/contributors)