Next Steps
Whew! That was a long project, but it was worth it. You now have a fully functional, audio-generating RSS reading application that can be tailored to whatever well-formed RSS feeds you want to parse. And because you’re storing past feed results in a database, only new articles since the last time you ran the pispeak.py script will be compiled into a new MP3 file for listening at home, work, or on the go.
Improvements are guaranteed with any software endeavor, and this project is no different.
The TTS technology called upon by the gtts library is far better than the tinny robotic voices used by open source TTS engines like Festival,[61] but they still sound unnatural. Advanced machine learning is being used by major tech companies ...
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