gTTS not wanting to import properly

[philipposslicher]

So I am trying to get gTTS to work
I know that you are supposed to import with from gtts import gTTS.
I have a new virtualenv, with gtts, and speechrecognition installed and no matter what I do I can't get gTTS to import
If I try: from gtts import gTTS
ImportError: cannot import name 'gTTS'
Any ideas?
Using Python 3.5.2

[jhoelzl]

How have you installed the module?

Verify with pip list if gTTS is installed in your environment.

When you have activated your virtual environment, run

pip install gTTS without sudo, otherwise it will be installed in your main python folder of your operating system.

[philipposslicher]

I installed it with pip install gTTS. I have checked its installed in the virtualenv, running import gtts (I ran this just to test if its installed) shows thats its installed.
Output of pip list

gTTS (1.1.6)
gTTS-token (1.1.1)
pip (9.0.1)
PyAudio (0.2.9)
requests (2.11.1)
setuptools (28.8.0)
SpeechRecognition (3.4.6)
wheel (0.30.0a0)

[jhoelzl]

and in your environment, the module files exist under lib/python3.5/site-packages/gtts ?

[philipposslicher]

Yep, both gtts, gtts_token, gTTS_token-1.1.1.dist-info, and gTTS-1.1.6.dist-info

[jhoelzl]

Could you try the command from gtts import gTTS using python -i in your environment?

[philipposslicher]

It gives me this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: cannot import name 'gTTS'

[jhoelzl]

You could try this instead:

import gtts

tts = gtts.gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
tts.save("hello.mp3")

[philipposslicher]

That gives this though:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'gtts' has no attribute 'gTTS'

[jhoelzl]

Maybe this is related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16981921/relative-imports-in-python-3.
What is the name of your script file? It should no be gtts.py.

Maybe try something like this:

import gtts

tts = gtts.tts.gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
tts.save("hello.mp3")

or remove the dots in the import command in __init__.py

[philipposslicher]

Ok so it I didn't know that the script shouldnt be named after the module. I have fixed it and now it seems to run. Now I'm wondering, is it possible for gTTS to speak the text without needing to write to a file, then playing it back?

[jhoelzl]

Currently not, i also requested this feature in #26

[philipposslicher]

What would be recommended for playing a file, and also deleting (cause it would be temp)

[jhoelzl]

You can do this to play the file and then remove it:

from gtts import gTTS
import os

filename = "temp"
tts = gTTS(text='Hello', lang='en')
tts.save(filename + ".mp3")

# Convert MP3 to Wav and Play
os.system('avconv -i ' + filename + '.mp3 -ac 1 -ar 44100 '  + filename + '.wav' )
os.system('aplay ' + filename+'.wav')

os.remove(filename+'.wav')
os.remove(filename+'.mp3')

[ghost]

@philipposslicher
I am also having the same problem with gtts module how did you corrected can you pls explain it.
AttributeError: module 'gtts_1' has no attribute 'gTTs'

[JaiSh12345]

I wrote >>import gtts
I am getting:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module> import gtts File "C:\Python34\lib\gtts\__init__.py", line 3, in <module> from .tts import gTTS, gTTSError File "C:\Python34\lib\gtts\tts.py", line 6, in <module> from gtts_token import gtts_token ImportError: No module named 'gtts_token'
What to do?

[JaiSh12345]

Then I tried:
>>> from gtts import gTTS
>>> gTTS('Hello')
Output? This:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#14>", line 1, in <module> gTTS('Hello') File "C:\Python34\lib\gtts\tts.py", line 140, in __init__ self.token = gtts_token.Token() NameError: name 'gtts_token' is not defined

[seriadiallo]

hello rerun this command first

pip install gTTS
it seems that this command crashed ,
then retry

[redixhumayun]

Hi, this seems to still be an issue.

I am using
-macOS Mojave 10.14.3
-Python 3.7
-gTTs 2.0.3
-gTTs-token 1.1.3

[RohitKumar2511]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/python/assistant.py", line 1, in
from gtts import gTTS
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gtts'

Please help with this. It says module not found I checked Its was there, but still got this error...

[ajayprajapat171]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/python/assistant.py", line 1, in
from gtts import gTTS
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gtts'

Please help with this. its same problem coming in my side if you have any solution please help me

[RohitKumar2511]

Brother, @ajayprajapat171, when I can't find out what's the error is... I just unistalled and reinstalled... finally error got solved

[AhmudulHassan]

Brother, @ajayprajapat171, when I can't find out what's the error is... I just unistalled and reinstalled... finally error got solved

Thanks brother.. i tried this way and finally fixed out..

[AndresVilla123]

Is true, I unistalled and reinstalled.
Now it works.