blender-text-to-speech

• make audio captions quickly
• options for pitch, rate and different voices
• convert closed captions files to audio (.srt, .srb and .txt) audio strips placed at timecodes if provided
• importing .txt files with no timecodes will place the audio strips in sequence based on order and text length
• import/export to csv file to save pitch/rate and voice options of individual strips
• export the audio clips generated by the tool in your timeline to closed captions files in .srt, .srb and .txt format
• export generates new timecodes based on audio strips starting frames
• convert audio caption strips to text strips for hardcoded/open caption creation
• convert batch audio caption strips to text strips based on template strip to control formatting
• caption data saved to blendfile

Installation:

• To install zip the directory "Text to Speech" and install the addon via preferences menu
• On Windows and Linux this addon will install pyttsx3 to your Blender python interpreter
• Linux users also must open a terminal and type:

sudo apt install -y espeak ffmpeg libespeak1

• Windows users will need to open Blender as administrator for install only

Voice options differ depending on OS:

Windows:

• David - Male - English (US)
• Zira - Female - English (US)

OSX:

• Alex - Male - English (US)
• Alice - Female - Italiano (Italia)
• Alva - Female - Svenska (Sverige)
• Amelie - Female - Français (Canada)
• Anna - Female - Deutsch (Deutschland)
• Carmit - Female - עברית (ישראל)
• Damayanti - Female - Indonesia (Indonesia)
• Daniel - Male - English (United kingdom)
• Diego - Male - Español (Argentina)
• Ellen - Female - Nederlands (België)
• Fiona - Female - En-Scotland
• Fred - Male - English (United States)
• Ioana - Female - Română (România)
• Joana - Female - Português (Portugal)
• Jorge - Male - Español (España)
• Juan - Male - Español (México)
• Kanya - Female - ไทย (ไทย)
• Karen - Female - English (Australia)
• Kyoko - Female - 日本語 (日本)
• Laura - Female - Slovenčina (Slovensko)
• Lekha - Female - हिन्दी (भारत)
• Luca - Male - Italiano (Italia)
• Luciana - Female - Português (Brasil)
• Maged - Male - العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية)
• Mariska - Female - Magyar (Magyarország)
• Mei-jia - Female - Zh_tw
• Melina - Female - Ελληνικά (ελλάδα)
• Milena - Female - Русский (Pоссия)
• Moira - Female - English (Ireland)
• Monica - Female - Español (España)
• Nora - Female - Norsk Bokmål (Norge)
• Paulina - Female - Español (México)
• Rishi - Male - English (India)
• Samantha - Female - English (United States)
• Sara - Female - Dansk (Danmark)
• Satu - Female - Suomi (Suomi)
• Sin-ji - Female - Zh_hk
• Tessa - Female - English (South Africa)
• Thomas - Male - Français (France)
• Ting-ting - Female - Zh_cn
• Veena - Female - English (India)
• Victoria - Female - English (United States)
• Xander - Male - Nederlands (Nederland)
• Yelda - Female - Türkçe (Türkiye)
• Yuna - Female - 한국어 (대한민국)
• Yuri - Male - Русский (Pоссия)
• Zosia - Female - Polski (Polska)
• Zuzana - Female - Čeština (česko)

Linux:

• Afrikaans - Male
• Aragonese - Male
• Bulgarian - Male
• Bosnian - Male
• Catalan - Male
• Czech - Male
• Welsh - Male
• Danish - Male
• German - Male
• Greek - Male
• Default - Male
• English - Male
• En-scottish - Male
• English-north - Male
• English_rp - Male
• English_wmids - Male
• English-us - Male
• En-westindies - Male
• Esperanto - Male
• Spanish - Male
• Spanish-latin-am - Male
• Estonian - Male
• Persian - Male
• Persian-pinglish - Male
• Finnish - Male
• French-belgium - Male
• French - Male
• Irish-gaeilge - Male
• Greek-ancient - Male
• Hindi - Male
• Croatian - Male
• Hungarian - Male
• Armenian - Male
• Armenian-west - Male
• Indonesian - Male
• Icelandic - Male
• Italian - Male
• Lojban - Male
• Georgian - Male
• Kannada - Male
• Kurdish - Male
• Latin - Male
• Lingua_franca_nova - Male
• Lithuanian - Male
• Latvian - Male
• Macedonian - Male
• Malayalam - Male
• Malay - Male
• Nepali - Male
• Dutch - Male
• Norwegian - Male
• Punjabi - Male
• Polish - Male
• Brazil - Male
• Portugal - Male
• Romanian - Male
• Russian - Male
• Slovak - Male
• Albanian - Male
• Serbian - Male
• Swedish - Male
• Swahili-test - Male
• Tamil - Male
• Turkish - Male
• Vietnam - Male
• Vietnam_hue - Male
• Vietnam_sgn - Male
• Mandarin - Male
• Cantonese - Male