def generate_tts(text="This is default debug text. Pass a parameter to override."):
    """
    :param text: text to be turned into tts
    ;var tts: tts data retrieved from translate.google.com/translate data seems to be 24kHz. converted to wav, the audio 
              was very sped up. adjusting the freq to 44100 makes it sound normal
    ;var readwav: converted mp3 wav data for turning into 
    """
    tts = gTTS(text, lang='en')
    tts.save("temp.mp3")
    if os.path.isfile('temp.wav'):
        os.remove('temp.wav')
    ff = ffmpy.FFmpeg(
        inputs={'temp.mp3': None},
        outputs={'temp.wav': ['-ar', '44100', '-ac', '1', '-acodec', 'dts', '-strict', '-2', '-f', 'wav']}
    )
    ff.run()
    readwav = read("temp.wav")
    data = numpy.array(readwav.data, dtype=float)
    sounddevice.play(data)