diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 063931a951..7961106b6c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ pyyaml==6.0
 readability-lxml==0.8.1
 requests
 tiktoken==0.3.3
+gTTS==2.3.1
 docker
 googlesearch-python
 google-api-python-client #(https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview) 
diff --git a/scripts/speak.py b/scripts/speak.py
index 2fbcbed26f..6fef41f83e 100644
--- a/scripts/speak.py
+++ b/scripts/speak.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ from playsound import playsound
 import requests
 from config import Config
 cfg = Config()
+import gtts
+
 
 # TODO: Nicer names for these ids
 voices = ["ErXwobaYiN019PkySvjV", "EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL"]
@@ -12,10 +14,9 @@ tts_headers = {
     "xi-api-key": cfg.elevenlabs_api_key
 }
 
-def say_text(text, voice_index=0):
+def eleven_labs_speech(text, voice_index=0):
     tts_url = "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}".format(
         voice_id=voices[voice_index])
-
     formatted_message = {"text": text}
     response = requests.post(
         tts_url, headers=tts_headers, json=formatted_message)
@@ -24,8 +25,24 @@ def say_text(text, voice_index=0):
         with open("speech.mpeg", "wb") as f:
             f.write(response.content)
         playsound("speech.mpeg")
-        # Delete audio file
         os.remove("speech.mpeg")
+        return True
     else:
         print("Request failed with status code:", response.status_code)
         print("Response content:", response.content)
+        return False
+
+def gtts_speech(text):
+    tts = gtts.gTTS(text)
+    tts.save("speech.mp3")
+    playsound("speech.mp3")
+    os.remove("speech.mp3")
+
+def say_text(text, voice_index=0):
+    if not cfg.elevenlabs_api_key:
+        gtts_speech(text)
+    else:
+        success = eleven_labs_speech()
+        if not success:
+            gtts_speech(text)
+