Changelog

2.2.0 (2020-11-14)

Features

Deprecations and Removals

  • Removed automatic language download from the main code, which has become too unreliable & slow. Languages will still be fetched but a pre-generated list will be shipped with gTTS. (#233, #241, #242, #243)

  • Because languages are now pre-generated, removed custom TLD support for language URL (which allowed to get language names in other than English) (#245)

Misc

2.1.2 (2020-11-10)

Features

  • Update gTTS-token to 1.1.4 (#238)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where some tokens could be empty after minimization (#229, #239)

Improved Documentation

  • Grammar, spelling and example fixes (#227)

Misc

2.1.1 (2020-01-25)

Bugfixes

  • Debug mode now uses a copy of locals() to prevent RuntimeError (#213)

2.1.0 (2020-01-01)

Features

  • The gtts module

    • Added the ability to customize the Google Translate URL hostname. This is useful when google.com might be blocked within a network but a local or different Google host (e.g. google.cn) is not (#143, #203):

      • New gTTS() parameter tld to specify the top-level domain to use for the Google hostname, i.e https://translate.google.<tld> (default: com).

      • Languages are also now fetched using the same customized hostname.

    • Pre-generated TTS API request URLs can now be obtained instead of writing an mp3 file to disk (for example to be used in an external program):

      • New get_urls() method returns the list of URLs generated by gTTS, which can be used in lieu of write_to_fp() or save().

  • The gtts-cli command-line tool

    • New --tld option to match the new gtts customizable hostname (#200, #207)

  • Other

    • Added Python 3.8 support (#204)

Bugfixes

  • Changed default word-for-word pre-processor (('M.', 'Monsieur')) which would substitute any ‘m.’ for ‘monsieur’ (e.g. ‘them.’ became ‘themonsieur’) (#197)

Improved Documentation

  • Added examples for newer features (#205, #207)

Misc

2.0.4 (2019-08-29)

Features

  • gTTS is now built as a wheel package (Python 2 & 3) (#181)

Improved Documentation

  • Fixed bad example in docs (#163, #166)

Misc

2.0.3 (2018-12-15)

Features

  • Added new tokenizer case for ‘:’ preventing cut in the middle of a time notation (#135)

Misc

2.0.2 (2018-12-09)

Features

  • Added Python 3.7 support, modernization of packaging, testing and CI (#126)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed language retrieval/validation broken from new Google Translate page (#156)

2.0.1 (2018-06-20)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an UnicodeDecodeError when installing gTTS if system locale was not utf-8 (#120)

Improved Documentation

  • Added Pre-processing and tokenizing > Minimizing section about the API’s 100 characters limit and how larger tokens are handled (#121)

Misc

2.0.0 (2018-04-30)

(#108)

Features

  • The gtts module

    • New logger (“gtts”) replaces all occurrences of print()

    • Languages list is now obtained automatically (gtts.lang) (#91, #94, #106)

    • Added a curated list of language sub-tags that have been observed to provide different dialects or accents (e.g. “en-gb”, “fr-ca”)

    • New gTTS() parameter lang_check to disable language checking.

    • gTTS() now delegates the text tokenizing to the API request methods (i.e. write_to_fp(), save()), allowing gTTS instances to be modified/reused

    • Rewrote tokenizing and added pre-processing (see below)

    • New gTTS() parameters pre_processor_funcs and tokenizer_func to configure pre-processing and tokenizing (or use a 3rd party tokenizer)

    • Error handling:

      • Added new exception gTTSError raised on API request errors. It attempts to guess what went wrong based on known information and observed behaviour (#60, #106)

      • gTTS.write_to_fp() and gTTS.save() also raise gTTSError on gtts_token error

      • gTTS.write_to_fp() raises TypeError when fp is not a file-like object or one that doesn’t take bytes

      • gTTS() raises ValueError on unsupported languages (and lang_check is True)

      • More fine-grained error handling throughout (e.g. request failed vs. request successful with a bad response)

  • Tokenizer (and new pre-processors):

    • Rewrote and greatly expanded tokenizer (gtts.tokenizer)

    • Smarter token ‘cleaning’ that will remove tokens that only contain characters that can’t be spoken (i.e. punctuation and whitespace)

    • Decoupled token minimizing from tokenizing, making the latter usable in other contexts

    • New flexible speech-centric text pre-processing

    • New flexible full-featured regex-based tokenizer (gtts.tokenizer.core.Tokenizer)

    • New RegexBuilder, PreProcessorRegex and PreProcessorSub classes to make writing regex-powered text pre-processors and tokenizer cases easier

    • Pre-processors:

      • Re-form words cut by end-of-line hyphens

      • Remove periods after a (customizable) list of known abbreviations (e.g. “jr”, “sr”, “dr”) that can be spoken the same without a period

      • Perform speech corrections by doing word-for-word replacements from a (customizable) list of tuples

    • Tokenizing:

      • Keep punctuation that modify the inflection of speech (e.g. “?”, “!”)

      • Don’t split in the middle of numbers (e.g. “10.5”, “20,000,000”) (#101)

      • Don’t split on “dotted” abbreviations and accronyms (e.g. “U.S.A”)

      • Added Chinese comma (“，”), ellipsis (“…”) to punctuation list to tokenize on (#86)

  • The gtts-cli command-line tool

    • Rewrote cli as first-class citizen module (gtts.cli), powered by Click

    • Windows support using setuptool’s entry_points

    • Better support for Unicode I/O in Python 2

    • All arguments are now pre-validated

    • New --nocheck flag to skip language pre-checking

    • New --all flag to list all available languages

    • Either the --file option or the <text> argument can be set to “-” to read from stdin

    • The --debug flag uses logging and doesn’t pollute stdout anymore

Bugfixes

  • _minimize(): Fixed an infinite recursion loop that would occur when a token started with the miminizing delimiter (i.e. a space) (#86)

  • _minimize(): Handle the case where a token of more than 100 characters did not contain a space (e.g. in Chinese).

  • Fixed an issue that fused multiline text together if the total number of characters was less than 100

  • Fixed gtts-cli Unicode errors in Python 2.7 (famous last words) (#78, #93, #96)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Dropped Python 3.3 support

  • Removed debug parameter of gTTS (in favour of logger)

  • gtts-cli: Changed long option name of -o to --output instead of --destination

  • gTTS() will raise a ValueError rather than an AssertionError on unsupported language

Improved Documentation

Misc

  • Major test re-work

  • Language tests can read a TEST_LANGS enviromment variable so not all language tests are run every time.

  • Added AppVeyor CI for Windows

  • PEP 8 compliance

1.2.2 (2017-08-15)

Misc

  • Update LICENCE, add to manifest (#77)

1.2.1 (2017-08-02)

Features

  • Add Unicode punctuation to the tokenizer (such as for Chinese and Japanese) (#75)

Bugfixes

  • Fix > 100 characters non-ASCII split, unicode() for Python 2 (#71, #73, #75)

1.2.0 (2017-04-15)

Features

  • Option for slower read speed (slow=True for gTTS(), --slow for gtts-cli) (#40, #41, #64, #67)

  • System proxy settings are passed transparently to all http requests (#45, #68)

  • Silence SSL warnings from urllib3 (#69)

Bugfixes

  • The text to read is now cut in proper chunks in Python 2 unicode. This broke reading for many languages such as Russian.

  • Disabled SSL verify on http requests to accommodate certain firewalls and proxies.

  • Better Python 2/3 support in general (#9, #48, #68)

Deprecations and Removals

  • ‘pt-br’ : ‘Portuguese (Brazil)’ (it was the same as ‘pt’ and not Brazilian) (#69)

1.1.8 (2017-01-15)

Features

  • Added stdin support via the ‘-‘ text argument to gtts-cli (#56)

1.1.7 (2016-12-14)

Features

  • Added utf-8 support to gtts-cli (#52)

1.1.6 (2016-07-20)

Features

  • Added ‘bn’ : ‘Bengali’ (#39, #44)

Deprecations and Removals

  • ‘ht’ : ‘Haitian Creole’ (removed by Google) (#43)

1.1.5 (2016-05-13)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed HTTP 403s by updating the client argument to reflect new API usage (#32, #33)

1.1.4 (2016-02-22)

Features

1.1.3 (2016-01-24)

Bugfixes

  • gtts-cli works with Python 3 (#20)

  • Better support for non-ASCII characters (#21, #22)

Misc

  • Moved out gTTS token to its own module (#19)

1.1.2 (2016-01-13)

Features

  • Added gTTS token (tk url parameter) calculation (#14, #15, #17)

1.0.7 (2015-10-07)

Features

  • Added stdout support to gtts-cli, text now an argument rather than an option (#10)

1.0.6 (2015-07-30)

Features

  • Raise an exception on bad HTTP response (4xx or 5xx) (#8)

Bugfixes

  • Added client=t parameter for the api HTTP request (#8)

1.0.5 (2015-07-15)

Features

  • write_to_fp() to write to a file-like object (#6)

1.0.4 (2015-05-11)

Features

  • Added Languages: zh-yue : ‘Chinese (Cantonese)’, en-uk : ‘English (United Kingdom)’, pt-br : ‘Portuguese (Brazil)’, es-es : ‘Spanish (Spain)’, es-us : ‘Spanish (United StateS)’, zh-cn : ‘Chinese (Mandarin/China)’, zh-tw : ‘Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)’ (#4)

Bugfixes

  • gtts-cli print version and pretty printed available languages, language codes are now case insensitive (#4)

1.0.3 (2014-11-21)

Features

  • Added Languages: ‘en-us’ : ‘English (United States)’, ‘en-au’ : ‘English (Australia)’ (#3)

1.0.2 (2014-05-15)

Features

  • Python 3 support

1.0.1 (2014-05-15)

Misc

  • SemVer versioning, CI changes

1.0 (2014-05-08)

Features

  • Initial release