subtitle to speech

What is it ?

This tool help you to convert subtitle (.srt) to audio file (.wav and .ogg). As the tool is based on Docker, it is OS independant :)

It uses Google text to speech API, mpg123 and sox

build it

docker build . -t tts

convert all srt files that we can find in ./data directory

docker run -v $(pwd)/data:/data -it tts

convert only file data/test.srt to audio using autralian accent, a little bit faster, and save it to a different filename

docker run -v $(pwd)/data:/data -it tts --srt-file test.srt --lang en-au --tempo 1.35 --outfilename test-au

Choosing your languages

A subtitle file is read by default in english. To choose an other language, juste specify in the filename following filename.[language key].srt where [language key] can be fr (french), en, es (spanish), zh-CN (chinese), ... Complete list can be found here

Known limitations

• It use python 2.7...

• Text have to be written on a single line:

1
00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:49,350
It will work

2
00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,270
It will
not work

3
00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,310
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