This code uses the gtts library to read a textinput and create an mp3 file. Very simple but very cool.

Create a virtualenv using python3 and install the requirements with:

virtualenv -p python3 req
source req/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the app just do:

python tts.py

For the first version the text is just hard coded inside the file but next step is to make the app take an optional input like:

python tts.py -t "Some random text that we want in an mp3 file"