eng2audio

eng2audio () {
# see this: https://gist.github.com/michalfapso/3110049/raw
# http://michalfapso.blogspot.com.br/2012/01/using-google-text-to-speech.html
# http://mostovenko.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/voicing-messages-in-python-or-fun-with.html
# versão no snipt: https://snipt.net/voyeg3r/

# how truncate string  --> echo ${var:start:end}
# removendo o último caractere de uma variável   ${var:0:-1}
#   vou precisar truncar a string::::: echo "Sua string contém "${#var}" caracteres"
if   ping -q -c2 www.google.com >/dev/null ; then
        FILENAME="${@:?Usage: $0 give me some words to speech}"
        FILENAME=`awk '{print tolower($0)}' <<< "$FILENAME"`
        url="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q="
        wget -q -U Mozilla -O "${FILENAME// /_}.mp3" "${url}${FILENAME// /+}+' '"
        [ -f "${FILENAME// /_}.mp3" -a ! -s "${FILENAME// /_}.mp3" ] && { rm -f "${FILENAME// /_}.mp3" ; echo 'error!'; }
        command -v mpg321 > /dev/null && mpg321 -q "${FILENAME// /_}.mp3"
        echo "[sound:${FILENAME// /_}.mp3]" | xclip -selection c
fi
}