I am doing Ai research. I have been using pyttsx3 for the voice. The pyttsx3 function does not produce visemes. It does produce limited timing for each word. I intend to make a function that take in the text, then produce the visemes for animation of an avatar. The problem is that the data is trapped in the engine. I wanted to save the audio to a file, then load and extract it. The problem is that the save_to_file appears to be a dummy function. I have spent days researching it and the best that I have gotten are files with 0 (zero) bytes. What is going on? Continue reading...
