Texeech

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  Texeech

Inspiration

Feeling restless to continuously gluing our eyes to screen.

What it does

It reads a text and says it aloud

How we built it

Here I have written a code where the programme reads aloud the contents of a pdf word by word. The programme in written using Python language. The approach of the programme is like this.

I first import the python library PyPDF2. PyPDF2 acts as a pdf toolkit. The function of this is to extract the document information and encrypt and decrypt the pdf file. From this library the class PdfFileReader is imported.

The second library imported is pytttsx3. This library is used for text to speech conversion. Using pyttsx3 An application invokes the pyttsx3.init() factory function to get a reference to a pyttsx3.Engine instance. During construction, the engine initializes a pyttsx3.driver.DriverProxy object responsible for loading a speech engine driver implementation from the pyttsx3.drivers module. After construction, an application uses the engine object to register and unregister event callbacks; produce and stop speech; get and set speech engine properties; and start and stop event loops.

At the end a loop is run to extract information of each page and read it aloud in a specific volume of our choice and also the male or female voice of our choice.

Challenges we ran into

Was not able to read a pdf properly but then rectified it

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully reading the entire text and pausing whenevera punctuation requires to

What we learned

Learnt the use of pythin libraries

What's next for Texeech

To make an app for it and also to recognjze handwritten texts.

Built With

• pypdf2
• python
• pyttsx3