TTSLanguage

Text To Speech commandline executable for macOS.
It can detect sentence language and read it using proper voice.

example:

$ TTSLanguage "Hello my Friend! Bonjour camarade! Cześć kolego."

It can also read lang attributes from html. example:

$ TTSLanguage "<span lang=\"en-US\">In Paris the name of the city is pronounced</span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">Paris</span>"

It’s created for an answer to AskDifferent question: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/434992/74657

Installation

Compiled

Compiled sources can be found in Playground/Testing.playground/Resources/TTSLanguage.zip

In order to use it in different places remember to store TTSLanguageLib.framework in the same dir as TTSLanguage executable.

Building

Everything could be build using Xcode

macOS Service

It can be run as a macOS service.

  • In Automator.app create Service with text input.
  • Add “Run shell Sscript” block
  • Change input type to stdin
  • Place this script inside:

myVar=$(</dev/stdin)
$PATH_TO_TTSLanguage_EXECUTABLE "$myVar"

NOTE: $PATH_TO_TTSLanguage_EXECUTABLE is the place on disk where you stored TTSLanguage executable.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts file is in Playground/Testing.playground/Resources/TTSLangShort.shortcut. Please adjust the location of the TTSLanguage executable.

Dependencies

GitHub

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