I made this simple script in January 2023 after being frustrated with chromium's tts reader. I could not make it read faster than 200% speed and it would say goofy things that semantically made no sence (e.g. underscore underscore underscore underscore underscore underscore...) instead of ignoring or removing the line break.

I wanted to make a script that allowed me to 'clean' the text before giving it to the tts reader. My solution was a simple dictionary of substitutions SUBSTITUTION_DICT that I could use regex to find. I also learned that re.sub may take a callable as one of its parameters, which accepts a match object and returns a string, so that the contents of the match can be manipulated and reinserted to the text. This is seen with the split_yr function

I also have some preset speeds in the Speeds class that I often use.

To use the reader, copy text into RAW.txt. After running ContentReader.py, the content will be cleaned and saved to SCRIPT.py and the pyttsx3 reader will speak aloud the script. The user also has the option of removing newlines in the main function if he/she desires.