error in the azure.cognitiveservices.speech python module

Question

There is documentation regarding how to use Azure's text to speech except for the case where you actually want the computer to speak the text while you process the text. I'm more interesting in converting a book to speech so that I can listen it. In that case, I can't have the computer talking to me the whole time. So I was recommended the following code on Github but it does not work. Here is the original Github question: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/119434

This line

        stream = speechsdk.AudioDataStream(
            format=speechsdk.AudioStreamFormat(
                pcm_data_format=speechsdk.PcmDataFormat.Pcm16Bit,
                sample_rate_hertz=16000, channel_count=1))

threw an error and said there was no method 'AudioStreamFormat' in speechsdk, did you mean AudioStreamWaveFormat, so I then used:

        stream = speechsdk.AudioDataStream(
            format=speechsdk.AudioStreamWaveFormat(
                pcm_data_format=speechsdk.PcmDataFormat.Pcm16Bit,
                sample_rate_hertz=16000, channel_count=1))

Now, I'm getting: AttributeError: module 'azure.cognitiveservices.speech' has no attribute 'PcmDataFormat'

Answer 1

Hi @kyle foley,

I'm glad I could help and thanks for the response, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer.

Question: error in the azure.cognitiveservices.speech python module

Answer:

import azure.cognitiveservices.speech as speechsdk

# Set up the speech configuration
speech_config = speechsdk.SpeechConfig(subscription="<Your_Subscription>", region="<Your_region>")
speech_config.speech_synthesis_language = "en-US"
speech_config.speech_synthesis_voice_name = "en-US-AriaNeural"

# Set up the audio output format
audio_config = speechsdk.audio.AudioOutputConfig(filename="<output-file-name>.mp3")

# Create a synthesizer object
synthesizer = speechsdk.SpeechSynthesizer(speech_config=speech_config, audio_config=audio_config)

# Read the input text from a file
with open(r"<input-file-name>.txt", "r") as f:
    input_text = f.read()

# Convert the text to speech
synthesizer.speak_text_async(input_text)

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