Remove pitch option as it no longer has any effect

* Most likely Microsoft started ignoring it along with the custom SSML
  purge

README.md

@@ -63,17 +63,18 @@ You must first check the available voices with the `--list-voices` option:
 
 Support for custom SSML has been removed since 5.0.0 because Microsoft has taken the initiative to prevent it from working. You cannot use custom SSML anymore.
 
-### Changing pitch, rate, volume, etc.
+### Changing rate, volume, etc.
 
 It is possible to make minor changes to the generated speech.
 
-    $ edge-tts --pitch=-10Hz --text "Hello, world!" --write-media hello_with_pitch_down.mp3
     $ edge-tts --rate=-50% --text "Hello, world!" --write-media hello_with_rate_halved.mp3
     $ edge-tts --volume=-50% --text "Hello, world!" --write-media hello_with_volume_halved.mp3
 
-Keep in mind that the `--pitch`, `--rate`, `--volume`, etc. options are applied to the entire SSML document.
+Keep in mind that the `--rate`, `--volume`, etc. options are applied to the entire SSML document.
 
-In addition, it is required to use `--pitch=-10Hz` instead of `--pitch -10Hz` otherwise the `-10Hz` would be interpreted as just another argument.
+In addition, it is required to use `--rate=-50%` instead of `--pitch -50%` otherwise the `-50%` would be interpreted as just another argument.
+
+**NOTE**: `--pitch` was removed in 6.0.3 as it no longer appears to have any effect.
 
 ### Note on the `edge-playback` command
 

src/edge_tts/communicate.py

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def split_text_by_byte_length(text: Union[str, bytes], byte_length: int) -> List
 
 
 def mkssml(
-    text: Union[str, bytes], voice: str, pitch: str, rate: str, volume: str
+    text: Union[str, bytes], voice: str, rate: str, volume: str
 ) -> str:
     """
     Creates a SSML string from the given parameters.
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def mkssml(
 
     ssml = (
         "<speak version='1.0' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis' xml:lang='en-US'>"
-        f"<voice name='{voice}'><prosody pitch='{pitch}' rate='{rate}' volume='{volume}'>"
+        f"<voice name='{voice}'><prosody pitch='+0Hz' rate='{rate}' volume='{volume}'>"
         f"{text}</prosody></voice></speak>"
     )
     return ssml
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@ class Communicate:
         text: str,
         voice: str = "Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (en-US, AriaNeural)",
         *,
-        pitch: str = "+0Hz",
         rate: str = "+0%",
         volume: str = "+0%",
         proxy: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -231,10 +230,6 @@ class Communicate:
         ):
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid voice '{voice}'.")
 
-        if re.match(r"^[+-]?\d+Hz$", pitch) is None:
-            raise ValueError(f"Invalid pitch '{pitch}'.")
-        self.pitch: str = pitch
-
         if re.match(r"^[+-]?\d+%$", rate) is None:
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid rate '{rate}'.")
         self.rate: str = rate
@@ -254,7 +249,7 @@ class Communicate:
                 ssml_headers_plus_data(
                     connect_id(),
                     date_to_string(),
-                    mkssml("", self.voice, self.pitch, self.rate, self.volume),
+                    mkssml("", self.voice, self.rate, self.volume),
                 )
             )
             + 50  # margin of error
@@ -321,7 +316,7 @@ class Communicate:
                             connect_id(),
                             date,
                             mkssml(
-                                text, self.voice, self.pitch, self.rate, self.volume
+                                text, self.voice, self.rate, self.volume
                             ),
                         )
                     )

src/edge_tts/util.py

@@ -83,12 +83,6 @@ async def _async_main() -> None:
         help="lists available voices",
         action="store_true",
     )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "-p",
-        "--pitch",
-        help="set TTS pitch. Default +0Hz, For more info check https://bit.ly/3eAE5Nx",
-        default="+0Hz",
-    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "-r",
         "--rate",