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[James]

Hi Harold,

That should be doable, check out Tim’s guide on object recognition:

Object and Animal Recognition With Raspberry Pi and OpenCV - Tutorial Australia

Were you looking to get it saying object names aloud? If so, you’re not the first!

Object and Animal Recognition With Raspberry Pi and OpenCV

Hi Tim, I was from the YouTube comment and I’m trying to use a Text To Speech software to say out loud the name of any object the code is able to detect. I’m having some trouble on a few things. How would I make it so that the if the same object stays on the screen for a while, to stop saying it’s name out loud, and only resume when a NEW object has been spotted? Thanks for the help.

I made another post on that thread talking about how to grab the list of objects it found:

Object and Animal Recognition With Raspberry Pi and OpenCV

Hi Niseem, That’ll be super easy! In the Python code in the guide, the getObjects function spits out two things, an image, and a list of all the objects it found in an image, each one a smaller list of two elements, the object name, and the model’s confidence that it got it right. [image] Let me know if this needs more sense added to it! -James

From there, you’ll just need to pick a TTS option, gTTS seems popular:

gTTS

Or if you’re after something self contained:

TTS is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. | PythonRepo

-James