speak.sh

#!/bin/bash

rawurlencode() {
local string="${1}"
local strlen=${#string}
local encoded=""

for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; pos++ )); do
c=${string:$pos:1}
case "$c" in
[-_.~a-zA-Z0-9] ) o="${c}" ;;
* ) printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
esac
encoded+="${o}"
done
echo "${encoded}"
}

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "No text specified, exiting"
exit
else
TEXT=$( rawurlencode "$1" )
fi
if [ -z "$2" ]
then
echo "No language supplied, using en"
LANG="en"
else
LANG="$2"
fi

API="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$LANG&q=$TEXT"
hash="$(echo -n "$TEXT" | md5sum )"
UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.2 Safari/537.36"
wget -o /dev/null --user-agent="$UA" -O "/tmp/$hash.mp3" "$API"
mpg123 -q "/tmp/$hash.mp3"