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Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By : B. M. Harwani
Book Image

Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By: B. M. Harwani

Overview of this book

PyQt is one of the best cross-platform interface toolkits currently available; it's stable, mature, and completely native. If you want control over all aspects of UI elements, PyQt is what you need. This book will guide you through every concept necessary to create fully functional GUI applications using PyQt, with only a few lines of code. As you expand your GUI using more widgets, you will cover networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance its functionality. Next, the book guides you in using Qt Designer to design user interfaces and implementing and testing dialogs, events, the clipboard, and drag and drop functionality to customize your GUI. You will learn a variety of topics, such as look and feel customization, GUI animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. Lastly, the book takes you through how Qt5 can help you to create cross-platform apps that are compatible with Android and iOS. You will be able to develop functional and appealing software using PyQt through interesting and fun recipes that will expand your knowledge of GUIs
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Making an Android device speak a text input


In this recipe, we will see how an Android device generates sound from the supplied text. That is, the device will speak the specified text.

 

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will be making use of the ttsSpeak() method, which activates the speech synthesis application on an Android device and the device will generate sound for the supplied text.

Let's take a look at the following steps:

  1. Type the following code in the Python script demoTextToSpeach.py in the current folder of your computer:
import androidapp = android.Android()
message = "Let us count from 1 to 10"
app.ttsSpeak(message)
for i in range(1,11):
    app.ttsSpeak(str(i))
  1. Copy or push this Python script into the Android device by using the following command line:
C:\Users\Bintu\QPython\Scripts>adb push demoTextToSpeach.py /sdcard/qpython/bintuscripts

How it works...

An object called app is created by invoking the Android() method of the android module. A message, Let us count from 1 to 10...