Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

say(){ mplayer -user-agent Mozilla "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $* | sed 's#\ #\+#g')" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; }

By: return13

2011-03-13 21:10:26

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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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wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=hello+world

sairon · 2011-03-08 14:05:36 24
Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world
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say() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$1"; }

daa · 2011-09-08 03:34:24 11
Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

Usage: t2s 'How are you?' Nice because it automatically names the mp3 file up to 15 characters Modified (uses bash manip instead of tr) t2s() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O $(cut -b 1-15
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t2s() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O $(tr ' ' _ <<< "$1"| cut -b 1-15).mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=$(tr ' ' + <<< "$1")"; }

snipertyler · 2013-10-16 23:29:59 9
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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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 -

jhansen · 2011-09-19 23:06:15 6
Say something out loud

Whatever arguments you pass will be spoken out loud. (Put it in a script or shell function.)
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curl -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo "$@" | sed 's/ /+/g')" | play -t mp3 -

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