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 "In Paris the name of the city is pronouncedParis"
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=$(
NOTE: $PATH_TO_TTSLanguage_EXECUTABLE
is the place on disk where you stored TTSLanguage
executable.
ShortcutsShortcuts file is in Playground/Testing.playground/Resources/TTSLangShort.shortcut
. Please adjust the location of the TTSLanguage
executable.
Dependencies
- HTML parsing with
SwiftSoup
(https://github.com/scinfu/SwiftSoup.git)
- Using
NaturalLanguage
framework available in macOS 10.14 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/naturallanguage)