text-player

🔊 Text Player

A Python desktop application that animates and speaks English text — displaying characters letter by letter while playing audio using text-to-speech.

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✨ Features

• Animated text display — characters appear progressively with customizable speed
• Text-to-speech playback using Python's speech engine
• Load text from file or type directly into the interface
• Playback controls: play, pause, stop
• Clean GUI built with Tkinter and CustomTkinter

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🖥️ Tech Stack

Category	Technology
Language	Python 3
GUI	tkinter, customtkinter
TTS	pyttsx3 or win32com.client (SAPI)
Audio	playsound

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🚀 Getting Started

Install Dependencies

pip install customtkinter pyttsx3 playsound

Run

python main.py

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📁 Project Structure

text-player/
├── main.py       # Main application entry point
└── source/       # UI assets and resources

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📝 Notes

• Version 2.1 — evolved from a simple proof-of-concept (v1.0) to a fully featured GUI application.
• A fun project combining text animation, threading for non-blocking playback, and Windows SAPI speech synthesis.
• Demonstrates skills in: GUI design, threading, audio output, file I/O.

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