My wife has extreme dry eye condition, so she want to avoid looking at the screen as much as possible. She asked me for a solution for Text-to-Speech on linux desktop.<\/p>\n
Basically her requirement is to press a key and read out what she selects. I check jovie, but that’s somehow discontinued and the only speech-dispatcher backend available on my distro is espeak, whose voice quality is poor comparing to any modern solution on the desktop.<\/p>\n
So I decided to check if there’s any available solution on internet and see if there’s a solution that using Google translate’s TTS service.<\/p>\n
So far I found a script from http:\/\/elinux.org\/RPi_Text_to_Speech_(Speech_Synthesis)#Google_Text_to_Speech<\/a><\/p>\n Which I adjusted a little for my usecase:<\/p>\n I added xsel for reading string from primary selection, which is exactly what she’s asking for. And then I use plasma’s convenient custom global shortcut to bind a key to this script. Then you can enjoy the google tts with a single key press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife has extreme dry eye condition, so she want to avoid looking at the screen as much as possible. She asked me for a solution for Text-to-Speech on linux desktop. Basically her requirement is to press a key and … Continue reading #!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nTEXT=$(xsel)\r\n\r\nsay() { local IFS=+;\/usr\/bin\/mplayer -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols \"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&q=$*&tl=en\"; }\r\nsay $TEXT<\/pre>\n