yishaisilver / googlespeaks

a simple python module for casting sentences to a google device

google-speaks

This was done six years ago, just before I entered college. Please keep that in mind.

This is a simple python module that I made for casting sentences to google home from a Raspberry Pi. It gets around pychromecast's inability to cast local files, and, when paired with other services, it allows google home to offer me information without me having to ask for said information. Likewise, it also allows me to ask for information beyond that which the Google Assistant and IFTTT allow for (that is to say, of course, a premade response), such as the connection status of my devices. Also, this is a bit of a throw-together; if you feel you can improve it let me know.

Prerequisites

Install pychromecast, gtts, and urllib3 with the following commands:

sudo pip install pychromecast
sudo pip install gtts
sudo pip install urllib3

You'll also need to run an apache server. Install apache2 with:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils

Setup

Change "YOUR_DEVICE'S_NAME_HERE" to your device's name. Also change "192.168.0.39" in the 24th line to your RPi's (hopefully static) IP address. Next, you'll have to allow python to write to an accessible directory (/var/www/html) by executing:

sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html

If you're running this with python 2 and not python 3, you'll get an error from the zeroconf-Engine about unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'int'. You can fix that error by executing:

sudo pip install --upgrade zeroconf==0.19.1

Usage

Import it and call upon the cast_sentence method. Example:

import googleSpeaks
googleSpeaks.cast_sentence('Hello World!')

Built With

• pychromecast - What is used to actually cast the audio file.
• gTTS - Google Translate-based TTS Engine
• apache2 - What makes the audio file available for casting.

License

I don't care.