Inserting Google's text-to-speech fails to connect

[rafael...@gmail.com]

Greetings everyone, I'm having a problem trying to use the Google's text-to-speech feature.

The error message:

Failed to connect. Probable cause: Host 'https://translate.google.en-US/' is not reachable

Traceback (innermost last):

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mnemosyne/pyqt_ui/pronouncer_dlg.py", line 30, in run

filename = self.pronouncer.download_tmp_audio_file(\

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/pronouncers/google_pronouncer.py", line 36, in download_tmp_audio_file

tts.save(filename)

File "/home/rafa/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 295, in save

self.write_to_fp(f)

File "/home/rafa/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 272, in write_to_fp

raise gTTSError(tts=self)

gtts.tts.gTTSError: Failed to connect. Probable cause: Host 'https://translate.google.en-US/' is not reachable

What I tried:

I installed gTTS and googletrans using pip3, but it did not solve the problem.

My setup:

I'm currently using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS x86_64

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

It could be that the servers are indeed not reachable, or that you have done too many requests recently. 

It could also be a bug in gtts. You might try with the current development version of gtts from github. 

Cheers, 

Peter 

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[Peter Bienstman]

After updating gTTS on my system, I had similar problems. Turns out the 2.x version of gTTS changed the API syntax, which is why you have problems. The latest version of Mnemosyne on github should fix this.

Cheers,

Peter

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[Rafael Prates]

I followed your instructions and downloaded the latest version from github. It worked.

Thank you for your help.