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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Terminal - Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase
say() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$1"; }
2011-09-08 03:34:24
User: daa
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples:

say hello

say "hello world"

say hello+world

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wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=hello+world
2011-03-08 14:05:36
User: sairon
Functions: wget
Tags: google google api speech text-to-speech text to speech
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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

EDIT: command updated to support accented characters!

Works in any of 58 google supported languages (some sound like crap, english is the best IMO).

You get a mp3 file containing your query in spoken language. There is a limit of 100 characters for the "q" parameter, so be careful. The "tl" parameter contains target language.

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say(){ mplayer -user-agent Mozilla "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $* | sed 's#\ #\+#g')" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; }
2011-03-13 21:10:26
User: return13
Tags: google google api speech text-to-speech text to speech
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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format
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p=$(echo "hello world, how r u?"|sed 's/ /+/g');wget -U Mozilla -q -O - "$@" translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en\&q=$p|mpg123 -
2011-09-19 23:06:15
User: jhansen
Functions: echo mpg123 sed wget
Tags: google google api speech text-to-speech text to speech
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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

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curl -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+world" > hello.mp3
2011-07-01 20:59:33
User: gean01
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Sends a string to google tranlator, which converts it to English speech.

It's possible to create a nice script to do the job for us, such as

#!/bin'bash

curl -A "Mozilla" " /tmp/speak.mp3

mplayer /tmp/speak.mp3

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say() { local IFS=+;mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$*"; }
2011-09-08 13:02:46
User: RanyAlbeg
Tags: mplayer google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage: say hello world how are you today

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What others think

I would add a >/dev/null 2>&1 at the end of the line so it'll be more elegant.

Nice, short solution.

Comment by RanyAlbeg 88 weeks and 1 day ago

Variant

say "hello world"

doesn't work, it takes only first argument "hello".. It should be

say() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$(echo $@ | sed 's/[ ]/\+/g')" &>/dev/null; }

to correctly process spaces.

Comment by aikikode 87 weeks and 4 days ago

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