this is for educational use only! For commercial purposes see the pyttsx3 (offline) text to speech addon
- blender wrapper for gtts (google text to speech)
- make audio captions quickly
- options for input language, accent and pitch
- convert closed captions files to audio (.srt, .srb and .txt) audio strips placed at timecodes if provided
- importing .txt files with no timecodes will place the audio strips in sequence based on order and text length
- optional import/export to csv file to save pitch and language options of individual strips
- export the audio clips generated by the tool in your timeline to closed captions files in .srt, .srb and .txt format
- export generates new timecodes based on audio strips starting frames
- caption data saved to blendfile
- To install zip the directory "Text to Speech" and install the addon via preferences menu
- This addon will install gtts to your Blender python interpreter
- For windows users you will need to open Blender as administrator for install only, it may take a minute or two
- May not work on OSX for Blender versions before 3.0.1
- this is for educational use only!
This addon requires an internet connection. For offline text to speech check out the pyttsx3 (offline) text to speech addon. As per the gTTS project: "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 speech functionality and is different from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech."