gTTS (Google-Text-to-Speech) Error: Audio gets saved but does not play automatically

Question

This is my code for text-to-speech conversion:

from gtts import gTTS
import os
tts=gTTS(text="Hello World",lang="en")
tts.save("hello.mp3")
os.system("mpg321 hello.mp3")

I already installed gTTS through the command prompt(pip install gTTS).

But when I'm running the above code in python 2.7, I am not getting any error but nothing is happening either.

I can't hear anything.

I am using Windows 10

Can you please advise what should be done?

But, then is it possible for the sound to play as soon as the program is runned? — Blue Berry, Nov 25 '16 at 20:12
os.system("mpg321 hello.mp3") is supposed to do that but you might not have mpg321 on your path. What happens when you run `mpg321 hello.mp3` from console in directory where hello.mp3 resides? — UfoXp, Nov 25 '16 at 20:15
I tried to install mpg321 using "pip install mpg321"....but I got this error " Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement mpg321 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for mpg321" — Blue Berry, Nov 25 '16 at 21:26
No info about unknown command? Then I've got no clue whats up. — UfoXp, Nov 25 '16 at 21:30
I've missed your last reply. So you do not have mpg321? I'm not familiar with the tool but on Windows there seems to be no official binaries and it is not clear whether it can be even compiled for this platform. Maybe use original mpg123 instead? — UfoXp, Nov 25 '16 at 21:36
that means you didn't install the command. To play auido, this works for me `os.system("afplay b.mp3")` — Shark Deng, May 08 '22 at 01:08

Steffi Keran Rani J · Answer 1 · 2018-11-23T09:31:53.557

I had the same error. The problem was in the last line. Instead of os.system("mpg321 hello.mp3"), use the following:

os.system("start hello.mp3")

Since I save the text-to-speech converted audio in the working folder, it would suffice me to mention just the name of the audio inside the os.system.

Generally if you want to play an audio from the system, you would need to use this line:

os.system("start /thepathyouwant/filename")

The final working solution code:

from gtts import gTTS
import os
tts=gTTS(text="Hello World",lang="en")
tts.save("hello.mp3")
os.system("start hello.mp3")

gTTS (Google-Text-to-Speech) Error: Audio gets saved but does not play automatically

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