I am attempting to use gTTS as a realistic text to speech module for a personal assistant project. When querying the google service I am able to save the mp3 file and run it with pygame. from pygame import mixer from gtts import gTTS def speak(data): tts = gTTS(text=data, lang='en') tts.save('speech.mp3') mixer.init() mixer.music.load('speech.mp3') mixer.music.play() Upon running the function "speak" once it succesfully outputs, however when running it again it fails with an error. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\user1\Desktop\project_ai\assistant.py", line 7, in <module> text_to_speech.main('hello') File "C:\Users\user1\Desktop\project_ai\modules\speech_text_synthesis\text_to_speech.py", line 8, in main tts.save('speech.mp3') File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\gtts\tts.py", line 246, in save with open(savefile, 'wb') as f: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'speech.mp3' The error happens when attempting to save the text to another mp3 again. Thus pygame is unable to play it. I am aware that I can simply change the name of the file to save it but I would rather not. How am I able to accomplish this? Continue reading...
