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Hi, I get the error: (Python 2.7)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)

any fix or workaround? Thank you.

Hello,

i have following code:

text = "Hello, my name is Josef."
targetLanguage = 'de'
tts = gTTS(text, targetLanguage)  
tts.save("synthesized.mp3")

Since i play the output directly after this code, is there a way to get the audio output directly as a variable? So i do not have to save and open the mp3 file again.

Thanks!
Josef

Hello,

i am using Python 2.7.6 and gTTS 1.1.3 in a Python virtualenv. Everytime, when i try this command

tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')

i get back a class 'requests.exceptions.SSLError. I assume it has something to to with version of Python module requests or some other security settings. Can you recommend me which version to use to overcome this issue?

Thanks!
Josef

Hello,

I'm getting the error : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' when using the CLI.

I've tried all types of versions of python, re-installed the various modules, etc but nothing works.

typical command would be :
gtts-cli.py -f QGpjRNSVXnyMzGgCwq2XgVtJPDjkcVGAA9jXpBrjxP9r2IxBuv.txt -l 'en' -o test.mp3

Would appreciate help.
C

Is it possible to support both Google's (english) male and female voices?

Do you have the opportunity to add the Ukrainian language? He is present in the Google translation service. Thank you.

Hello,

While looking through this question , I was looking at the punctuation in your code and the chinese language test in your tests. The Chinese comma ("，") seems to missing from the punctuation in _tokenize, here. Since Chinese rarely uses periods or spaces, it was entirely possible that he was getting a maximum recursion error by have a space with a combination of 99 characters and commas. I thought I would let you know as I can't imagine the fix requires more than inserting that one character into the list.

Is it true that the service is down?

The module is great, I think it sounds very very good. Sadly, when I use it in my application it takes about 9-10 seconds to save the mp3 from about 70 characters string.

Do you have an idea what can be the issue, and is there any possibility for improvement?

Should we add a brew formula for gTTS ?
For that , we also need to add an installation script to the repo.

How install the raspberry pi?

Hi, I'm working on a way to play the mp3 immediately without saving it using mplayer. Would you have any pointers on doing that with your module? Love your work, thanks!

Before installing the gtts 1.1.3, I was getting 403 forbidden errors when using non ASCII characters. After installing this it still doesn't work, but now I get more meaningful errors:

root@VFKJ001:~# gtts-cli -l 'es' -o 'test.mp3' '¿ya estás volviendo a casa?'
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

It happens that both '¿' and 'á', since are not part of ASCII, are not properly parsed. This problem is in any language non ASCII chars, obviously.

Also, and probably unrelated to this, after upgrading to 1.1.3 I get this error when there are only ASCII symbols (although the generation is fine in that case):

root@VFKJ001:~# gtts-cli -l 'es' -o 'test.mp3' 'ya estas volviendo a casa?'
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:315: SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS request has been made, but the SNI (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate, which can cause validation failures. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#snimissingwarning.
  SNIMissingWarning
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:120: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning

Oh my god

I tried gtts-cli.py "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3
and I get the following error
503 Server Error: Service Unavailable

Typical step to generate a speech file (mp3) from text is :

from gtts import gTTS
tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en', slow=True)
tts.save("hello.mp3")

if I cannot give all text at once, how can I append to save mp3 file?
For example:
from gtts import gTTS
tts1 = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en', slow=True)
tts2 = gTTS(text='World', lang='en', slow=True)

How to tts2 append to tts1 to write speech tts1 and tts2 into save file?

Currently google_speech uses the same token generation code as this project. Is it worthwhile to extract the token generation code from this project into a new project and let both projects depend on that? I would be willing to maintain that project.

tts = gTTS('hallo', 'de')
tts.save('hallo.mp3')

With this code got the next error:

raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hallo&tl=de&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=699344.826976

I installed gTTS 4 days ago. At first, I used the example and run the script from the editor. It was really nice.
Then after a while, I could not receive anymore results. The script still ran, but no mp3 output from gTTS.
After an investigation, I relieved that now I can only run gTTS from Python console called in Command Prompt, and I have to put each line of scripts into it.
My Python version: 3.5
I'm using Spyder IDE 3.0.1
Windwos 10 64 bit

Many languages use accented vowels. Spanish is one of them. I am using UTF-8 encoding. Apparently the lower case vowel "a" with acute accent "á" (0xC3 0xA1 (c3a1)) is not recognized in the text by your program. The same accented vowel in upper case "Á" (0xC3 0x81 (c381)) works properly. The other accented lower case vowels ("é", "í", "ó", "ú") works fine too. The behaviour in other languages like Italian or French seems just the same than in Spanish (es-es or es-us). Therefore the problem seems limited to the char "á".

Best regards,

Luis

Hello I recently found this new amazing project. Cangratulations!!! I found an error while using a file with spanish text in it.

This is the error message:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbf' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
The text in the input file:
¿Cómo sabes que amas a alguien? Filosofía Martha Nussbaum Incomplegencia Teorema de la Verdad del Corazón, de Platón a Proust.

The command:
gtts-cli -o test.mp3 -f test.txt -l 'es'
I am not an expert with codecs and this stuff, I added this lines to gtts-cli.py:

# encoding=utf8
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

And it worked well, however I don't know if it's the optimal solution.

Hi,
I am getting a strange noise which sounds like "ps" at the end of the mp3 file, regardless of the string I input. Try following:

gtts-cli "test" -l de -o test.mp3
mpg123 test.mp3 

Can this be fixed? It's really annoying

The following consistently results in an mp3-file without sound (0 seconds):

from gtts import gTTS
tts = gTTS(text='你', lang='zh')
tts.save("ni3.mp3")

Sometimes all words result in such empty file, but I assume that happens when the tts service is not available. But even when it works for some words, '你' is one of the counterexamples that never result in a proper mp3-file.
From the around 10 words I used to test, I also noticed that the saved sound from '睡覺' is always a little bit shorter than the actual audio.

Google asks for a captcha when I go to (translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=Test) and gtts-cli produces an empty file. I've tried with different IPs and none of them work. Does gtts-cli still works properly?

this happens when I try running gtts-cli.py -o polish.mp3 -f polish.txt -l pl
basically Polish characters seem not to be properly supported by the program

Hello

I'm using your module for sometime now and I just got an error importing gTTS module after aptitude update on a raspberry (jessie).
The urllib3 package is on version 1.9.1 (installed from apt not pip)
As I can see in your setup.py there is no dependency with urllib3, is it normal or an oversight?
Anyway the problem comes from InsercureRequestWarning that cannot be imported as it is in gTTS code.

Full exception trace:

from gtts import gTTS
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtts/init.py", line 2, in
from .tts import gTTS
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 4, in
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
ImportError: cannot import name InsecureRequestWarning

Pip freeze:
alabaster==0.7.10
appdirs==1.4.3
argh==0.26.2
astral==1.4
Babel==2.4.0
backports-abc==0.5
bottle==0.12.7
certifi==2017.4.17
chardet==2.3.0
colorama==0.3.2
decorator==3.4.0
docutils==0.13.1
gevent==1.1.0
greenlet==0.4.12
gTTS==1.2.0
gTTS-token==1.1.1
html5lib==0.999
imagesize==0.7.1
Jinja2==2.9.6
livereload==2.5.1
Mako==1.0.6
Markdown==2.4.1
MarkupSafe==1.0
ndg-httpsclient==0.3.2
numpy==1.8.2
packaging==16.8
passlib==1.6.1
pathtools==0.1.2
pdoc==0.3.2
Pillow==2.6.1
pockets==0.5.1
port-for==0.3.1
psutil==2.1.1
pyasn1==0.1.7
pygame==1.9.2a0
Pygments==2.2.0
pyOpenSSL==0.13.1
pyparsing==2.2.0
python-apt==0.9.3.12
pytz==2017.2
PyYAML==3.12
requests==2.13.0
RPi.GPIO==0.6.3
scipy==0.14.0
simplejson==3.6.5
singledispatch==3.4.0.3
six==1.10.0
snowballstemmer==1.2.1
Sphinx==1.5.6
sphinx-autobuild==0.6.0
sphinx-rtd-theme==0.2.4
sphinxcontrib-napoleon==0.6.1
spidev==3.0
tornado==4.5.1
urllib3==1.21
watchdog==0.8.3
xmljson==0.1.8

A fix:
4 #from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
5 import requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions as urllib3_exceptions
6 from gtts_token.gtts_token import Token
134 with warnings.catch_warnings():
135 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=urllib3_exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
136 r = requests.get(self.GOOGLE_TTS_URL,

Thank you for your module it rocks 😄

hi guys,
it is not s big issue, but if you are behind a corp firewall (I am) when trying to call tts.save, there is error with regards to SSL:

tts.save("hello.mp3")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 94, in save
self.write_to_fp(f)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 114, in write_to_fp
r = requests.get(self.GOOGLE_TTS_URL, params=payload, headers=headers)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 55, in get
return request('get', url, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 44, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 456, in request
resp = self.send(prep, *_send_kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 559, in send
r = adapter.send(request, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 382, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError

it is fixed by modifying line 114 from
r = requests.get(self.GOOGLE_TTS_URL, params=payload, headers=headers)
to
r = requests.get(self.GOOGLE_TTS_URL, params=payload, headers=headers,verify=False)

could be helpful to maybe having it as an option configurable when building tts object.

Cheers
Alex

when use gTTS, pass in text more than 100 character, it report error:
"'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 0: unexpected end of data". Test case:
text = "这是一个三岁的小孩
在讲述她从一系列照片里看到的东西。
对这个世界， 她也许还有很多要学的东西，
但在一个重要的任务上， 她已经是专家了：
去理解她所看到的东西。
我们的社会已经在科技上取得了前所未有的进步。"
tts = gTTS(text=text, lang=args.lang)

Not an issue but when I saw the lang argument (text='text here', lang='hi'), I thought it would translate the text to the specified language and return back the output sound in the translated language.

Is there a way we can achieve this? Just like the way it works here - https://translate.google.com

Thanks!

I tried generate russian text longer than 100 symbols and it really doesn't sound as correct speaking. (I know russian language.) I think this happened because the program breaks text on chunks incorrectly.
I also see that

"MAX_CHARS = 100 # Max characters the Google TTS API takes at a time"

not really needed or it has another max value at present time.

karl@karl-ux303ln:~$ gtts-cli "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/gtts-cli.py", line 4, in <module> from gtts import gTTS File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtts/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from .tts import gTTS File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 4, in <module> from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning ImportError: No module named packages.urllib3.exceptions

Don't really know what this is.

I am building an application where I take documents and convert it to audio. I need a "beep" after every document. I can do it manually by appending mp3 files but it would be nice to include this in the conversion text.
Eg: "[[Speed=0.75]] I like weather today [[beep]] [[pause=1]]. [[Speed=0.5]] Do you like it too?"

I previously installed gTTS in venv and activated the same venv again, and ran my python script and got: "ImportError: No module named gtts". When, I then pip install gtts, I get the errors below. Any ideas why ?

(venv) u:translate_text-to-speech username$ pip install gtts
Collecting gtts
Collecting gtts-token (from gtts)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python (from gtts)
Collecting requests (from gtts)
Using cached requests-2.18.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting idna<2.7,>=2.5 (from requests->gtts)
Using cached idna-2.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting urllib3<1.23,>=1.21.1 (from requests->gtts)
Using cached urllib3-1.22-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests->gtts)
Using cached certifi-2017.7.27.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests->gtts)
Using cached chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: idna, urllib3, certifi, chardet, requests, gtts-token, gtts
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
**kwargs
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
ensure_dir(destdir)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/init.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
os.makedirs(path)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/idna'
(venv) u:translate_text-to-speech username$

The exact error is

(Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 135, in _new_conn
    (self.host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 66, in create_connection
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
  File "C:\Python\lib\socket.py", line 732, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 559, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 345, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 782, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 215, in connect
    conn = self._new_conn()
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 144, in _new_conn
    self, "Failed to establish a new connection: %s" % e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x00000132FB57A438>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 370, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 609, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 271, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='translate.google.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x00000132FB57A438>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed',))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    tts.save('Hello.mp3')
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 94, in save
    self.write_to_fp(f)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 107, in write_to_fp
    'tk' : self.token.calculate_token(part)}
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\gtts_token\gtts_token.py", line 28, in calculate_token
    seed = self._get_token_key()
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\gtts_token\gtts_token.py", line 58, in _get_token_key
    response = requests.get("https://translate.google.com/")
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 69, in get
    return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 50, in request
    response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 468, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 576, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 423, in send
    raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='translate.google.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x00000132FB57A438>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed',)))

Not as issue as such but is there any way to use the additional voices that google recently added.
i.e. Male and female voices.
Excellent module by the way, keep up the good work.

Hi all.

First, Thanks for your job to find the problem of the new API version.

I'm able to use the gtts-cli command line with, for exemple :
gtts-cli.py "Bonjour" -l 'fr' -o hello.mp3 and play it with the command line play, or open it with Itunes.

But when I use the gTTS module, I haven't any problem executing my code, but I can't open the .mp3 (Or other, .flac, ...) with Itunes, And the play command return :

play WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync play FAIL formats: can't open input file 'hello2.mp3'

Here my code :
from gtts import gTTS tts = gTTS(text='Hello') tts.save("hello2.mp3")

This used to work, but started failing all of a sudden.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "simple.py", line 29, in <module>
    tts.save(CLIP_NAME)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 94, in save
    self.write_to_fp(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 118, in write_to_fp
    r.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 840, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

I am trying to convert txt file into mp3 :

gtts-cli.py -f '/home/metal-machine/Desktop/honey.txt' hello.mp3

but it is showing error "Service unavailable":

503 Server Error: Service Unavailable

can you add options include: Very slow; Slow; Normal; Fast; Faster; Very fast; Rapid; Very rapid; Fastest, etc.?

How with google text-to-speech I can save to the MP3 file 2 Variables with different languages? Please help me. Everywhere is written only for 1 language. This is my code:

from gtts import gTTS
import os
import pickle
import pandas as pd

frame = pd.read_csv('file.csv', header=0, sep = '\t', encoding='cp1251')
print(frame)

text1 = list()
text2 = list()

for a, b in zip(frame['English'], frame['Русский']):
    text1.append(a)
    text2.append(b)

print(text1,
      text2)

text1 = str(text1)
text2 = str(text2)

tts1 = gTTS(text=text1, lang='en')
tts2 = gTTS(text=text2, lang='ru')


# tts2.save("from_file.mp3") it work just for one Variable!



with open('from_file.mp3', 'wb') as pickle_file:
    pickle.dump([tts1, tts2], pickle_file) 
# with pickle it doesn't work!

os.system("from_file.mp3")

file content:

English   Русский

tell	  говорить
fly	  летать
sit	  сидеть
act	  действовать

As a solution: I can loop every word with gTTS and add in mp3 file, but how can I add data in mp3 without delete past data ?? I want to create an audio dictionary.

So I am trying to get gTTS to work
I know that you are supposed to import with from gtts import gTTS.
I have a new virtualenv, with gtts, and speechrecognition installed and no matter what I do I can't get gTTS to import
If I try: from gtts import gTTS
ImportError: cannot import name 'gTTS'
Any ideas?
Using Python 3.5.2

Hi,

I'm the author of google_speech, a project with slightly different features, but similar goal as gTTS.
Since the recent Google tk change, I am using your token calculation code. I have tried myself to reverse engineer the calculation from JS code, but quickly abandoned, so congrats @Boudewijn26 :)
However if the text contains accentuated chars the token is wrong and consequently Google returns a 403.

To reproduce with gTTS:
gtts-cli 'he' => works fine
gtts-cli 'hé'=> 403 error

The instantiate example and the file like object example do not work in Windows.
I am using Windows 10, 64 bit.
Both give the same error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 90, in save
    self.write_to_fp(f)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 104, in write_to_fp
    r = requests.get(self.GOOGLE_TTS_URL, params=payload)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 60, in get
    return request('get', url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 48, in request
    session = sessions.Session()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 284, in __init
__
    self.headers = default_headers()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\utils.py", line 552, in default_h
eaders
    'User-Agent': default_user_agent(),
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\utils.py", line 521, in default_u
ser_agent
    _implementation = platform.python_implementation()
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\platform.py", line 1456, in python_implementation
    return _sys_version()[0]
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\platform.py", line 1422, in _sys_version
    repr(sys_version))
ValueError: failed to parse CPython sys.version: '2.7.3 |CUSTOM| (default, Aug
8 2013, 05:34:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]'

In the documentation it only mentions slow speed, is there a medium or a fast option as well ? Anything related to speed per second which one can set oneself would be super helpful.

gtts-cli.py [-h] (["text to speak"] | -f FILE) [-l LANG] [--slow] [--debug] [-o destination_file]
$ # Read the string 'Hello' in English (slow speed) to hello.mp3
$ gtts-cli "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3 --slow

Thanks and thanks for this library!

Hello,
When I run your example "gtts-cli.py "Hello" -l 'en' -o hello.mp3 -slow" in the terminal in Linuxmint 18.1 xfce, using the latest version through pip, I get the error:
"gtts-cli.py: error: unrecognized arguments: --slow"
Also, I would appreciate it if you could add a parameter to precisely adjust the speed of voice in the command line options (e.g., --speed 0.8)

sometimes ,we need proxy and also should change the encode type.

here is my way:
https://github.com/common83/gtts_with_proxy

from gtts import gTTS

tts = gTTS(text="hello", lang='en')
tts.save('F:say.mp3')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\testaudio.py", line 5, in
tts.save('F:say.mp3')
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 90, in save
self.write_to_fp(f)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 108, in write_to_fp
r.raise_for_status()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 837, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?textlen=5&idx=0&q=hello&tl=en&client=t&total=1&ie=UTF-8

Hello,

I´ve tested pt and pt-br and the speech is always the same.
I attached two files one in 'pt' and another in 'pt-br' to check that is the same speech.
If you can help me I appreciate.

lang.zip