Today, I am going to show how to make your Micro:bit talk using a very easy programming language – MicroPython. Yes, it is very easy to make your BBC Micro:bit device talk using Speech Synthesis. And you know, the interesting part is just four lines of code and your device will start talking/saying whatever you want.
If you don’t know what BBC Micro:bit is and how to get started with it, please see THIS post or THIS post where I have covered all the basics on how to get started with Micro:bit. So, let’s get started and see how to make Micro:bit talk.
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