eng2audio.sh

eng2audio() {
# this function gets the mp3 version of one given string from google translate
# reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9163988/download-mp3-from-google-translate-text-to-speech
ping -c 2 www.google.com  > /dev/null || echo 'Error: not connected!' && \
wget -q -U Mozilla -O "$*.mp3" "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=$*"
}