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
FILENAME="${*:?Usage: Give me words to translate}"
FILENAME="{$FILENAME// /+}+' '"
 ! ping -n -c 4 -i 0.2 -W1 www.google.com  > /dev/null   &&  echo 'erro de conexão' || \
wget -q -U Mozilla -O "${FILENAME//+/_}.mp3" "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=$FILENAME"
}