Generate high-quality speech from text with Microsoft Edge's neural voices. For Free!

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A GUI desktop text-to-speech app built with Flet and edge-tts for generating Microsoft Edge neural voices as MP3 files.

EdgeVoice gives you a clean GUI for:

• selecting a language, gender, and voice
• previewing voices before generating audio
• tuning rate, volume, and pitch
• generating a single MP3 with optional subtitles
• batch-generating multiple MP3 files from a text list
• saving your preferred theme and voice settings between sessions

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Features

Single generation

• Paste text or load it from a .txt file
• Choose an output .mp3 path
• Optionally generate a matching .srt subtitle file
• Generate and immediately play the result in-app

Bulk generation

• Add rows manually
• Import a text file with one entry per line
• Edit or delete individual rows before generation
• Retry only failed rows
• Generate all pending rows into a selected output folder
• Stop an ongoing bulk generation and keep unfinished rows queued
• Track progress, completed item count, and estimated remaining time

Voice workflow

• Filter by locale/language and gender
• Preview the selected voice before committing to a full export

UI/UX details

• Persist theme, voice, and prosody settings in config.json
• Light and dark mode toggle

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Getting started

Prerequisites

Make sure you have:

• Python 3.11 or newer
• internet access (for fetching the voice list and generating audio)

Installation

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt.

Run the app

flet run main.py

or

python main.py

Building the Windows app

Build the packaged desktop application from the repository root after installing the dependencies. The PyInstaller spec includes icon.ico both as the executable icon and as a runtime file so Flet can use it for the window and taskbar icon.

VS Code

Run the Build EdgeVoice (PyInstaller) task from the Command Palette. The packaged application will be created at dist\EdgeVoice\EdgeVoice.exe.

PowerShell

& .\.venv\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe --noconfirm EdgeVoice.spec

The dist\EdgeVoice folder contains the executable and its runtime files. Run dist\EdgeVoice\EdgeVoice.exe to launch the packaged app.

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Usage

Single tab workflow

1. Launch the app.
2. Wait for the voice list to finish loading.
3. Choose a language, gender, and voice.
4. Adjust Rate, Volume, and Pitch if needed.
5. Enter text manually or load a .txt file.
6. Choose an output .mp3 path.
7. Optionally enable subtitle export.
8. Click Generate & Play or Save to File.

Bulk tab workflow

1. Open the Bulk tab.
2. Add rows manually or import a .txt file.
3. Choose an output folder.
4. Optionally enable subtitle export.
5. Click Bulk Generate.
6. Monitor the progress bar, completed count, and ETA, or click Stop to cancel.

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Contributing

Issues, fixes, and polish improvements are welcome.

If you plan to contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Test the app locally
5. Open a pull request with a clear description