Read selection

And onto further adventures!

After making that zenspeak script I got told that it'd be more useful, if you could enter a whole lot of text into it. So then it dawned on me that maybe having a Gedit plugin like that could be useful.

So, if you got the External Tools plug-in installed in Gedit, you can put this script in there somewhere, tweak it a bit to use your favorite speech generator, voice, etc., and you're all set to never read a single word again.

One drawback: it won't be easy to stop it if you've let it run, so if you make it read a lot of text, it might be troublesome.

I suppose I don't have it in me to really write stuff here today.

The code:

 
 1 #!/bin/bash 
 2 text=`xargs -0 echo` 
 3  
 4 SYSTEM=espeak
 5  
 6 if [ -n "$text" ] 
 7 then 
 8     echo "Reading \"$text\" with $SYSTEM." 
 9  
10     if [ $SYSTEM == espeak ] 
11     then 
12         padsp espeak "$text" -v en+f3
13     elif [ $SYSTEM == festival ] 
14     then 
15         echo "$text" | festival --tts
16     fi 
17 fi 

The code is also available at GitHub as gedit/gedit_read_selection.