gTTS text to speech support

Anki Add-ons
1

Hello all,

since a short time I get the following error when using the Addon gTTS text to speech support. I already deleted and reinstalled gTTS text to speech support but the error remains. I hope I get help here.

Error
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Debug info:
Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Python 3.8.0 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2
Platform: Windows 10
Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=1
Add-ons, last update check: 2020-11-09 20:21:07

Caught exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “aqt\taskman.py”, line 87, in on_closures_pending
File “aqt\taskman.py”, line 59, in
File “aqt\sound.py”, line 238, in
File "C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525_init.py", line 164, in _on_done
ret.result()
File “concurrent\futures_base.py”, line 432, in result
File “concurrent\futures_base.py”, line 388, in _get_result
File “concurrent\futures\thread.py”, line 57, in run
File “aqt\sound.py”, line 238, in
File "C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525_init.py", line 160, in _play
tts.save(self._tmpfile)
File “C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525\vendor\gtts\tts.py”, line 295, in save
self.write_to_fp(f)
File “C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525\vendor\gtts\tts.py”, line 251, in write_to_fp
prepared_requests = self._prepare_requests()
File “C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525\vendor\gtts\tts.py”, line 194, in _prepare_requests
part_tk = self.token.calculate_token(part)
File “C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525\vendor\gtts_token\gtts_token.py”, line 28, in calculate_token
seed = self._get_token_key()
File “C:\Users\ingob\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\391644525\vendor\gtts_token\gtts_token.py”, line 58, in _get_token_key
raise ValueError(
ValueError: Unable to find token seed! Did https://translate.google.com change?

Many thanks, Ingo

2

It seems that Google has updated and switched to another way of generating speech.
This issue is currently open on GitHub. Further information you’ll find here: https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/issues/232

There is also a workaround provided that works fine for me.

In file __init__.py I replaced line #160

tts.save(self._tmpfile)

with

  # Workaround to avoid error in save function
        count=1
        while True:
            try:
                tts.save(self._tmpfile)
                break
            except:
                print('got the issue '+str(count))
                count+=1
        
        # The following line was there before
        # tts.save(self._tmpfile)

Regards, Ingo

3

Thanks for posting your workaround. I’d recommend adding a limit on the count, or you could end up waiting forever if it stops working completely. You may also want to consider switching over to the AwesomeTTS add-on, as I believe it supports native Anki TTS tags now, and it is better supported.

4

Hi Damien,

Many thanks for the tip. I do not have any problems with it yet but I will take it into account.
I have tried the AwesomeTTS addon in the past and was not so happy with it. I hope there there will be a fix soon.

Regards, Ingo

5

This workaround doesn’t work for me. I also removed and installed again add-on but no success.

This topic is closed:

I found something like this in Arch repo:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-gtts-token
should I install it?