This extremely simple Ruby module extends the String class by adding a to_speech method, so text.to_speech will perform a request to Text-to-Speech API which produces a remote mp3 file that will be downloaded to the current directory (curl needed):
text.to_speech→text.mp3
Usage
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require_relative 'tts' | |
| class String | |
| include TTS::String | |
| end | |
| "fuck yeah".to_speech |
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # string.to_speech through tts-api.com | |
| require 'net/http' | |
| SERVICE_URI_FORMAT = "http://tts-api.com/tts.mp3?q=%s" | |
| module TTS | |
| class Speech | |
| def initialize text | |
| response = get_response(SERVICE_URI_FORMAT % text.to_url) | |
| @text = text | |
| @location = response['location'] | |
| @filename = text.to_filename('mp3') | |
| end | |
| def to_mp3 | |
| download_here @location, @filename | |
| end | |
| def to_s | |
| [@text, @location, @filename].join(' -> ') | |
| end | |
| private | |
| def get_response service_uri | |
| Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(service_uri)) | |
| end | |
| def download_here url, filename | |
| system "curl -o #{filename} #{url}" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| module String | |
| def to_speech | |
| speech = Speech.new(self) | |
| puts speech | |
| speech.to_mp3 | |
| end | |
| def to_url | |
| gsub(' ', '+').safe | |
| end | |
| def to_filename extension = 'bin' | |
| [(gsub(' ', '_')).safe, extension].join('.') | |
| end | |
| def safe | |
| downcase.strip.gsub(/[^\w-]/, '') | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end |
Code
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require_relative 'tts' | |
| class String | |
| include TTS::String | |
| end | |
| "fuck yeah".to_speech |
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # string.to_speech through tts-api.com | |
| require 'net/http' | |
| SERVICE_URI_FORMAT = "http://tts-api.com/tts.mp3?q=%s" | |
| module TTS | |
| class Speech | |
| def initialize text | |
| response = get_response(SERVICE_URI_FORMAT % text.to_url) | |
| @text = text | |
| @location = response['location'] | |
| @filename = text.to_filename('mp3') | |
| end | |
| def to_mp3 | |
| download_here @location, @filename | |
| end | |
| def to_s | |
| [@text, @location, @filename].join(' -> ') | |
| end | |
| private | |
| def get_response service_uri | |
| Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(service_uri)) | |
| end | |
| def download_here url, filename | |
| system "curl -o #{filename} #{url}" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| module String | |
| def to_speech | |
| speech = Speech.new(self) | |
| puts speech | |
| speech.to_mp3 | |
| end | |
| def to_url | |
| gsub(' ', '+').safe | |
| end | |
| def to_filename extension = 'bin' | |
| [(gsub(' ', '_')).safe, extension].join('.') | |
| end | |
| def safe | |
| downcase.strip.gsub(/[^\w-]/, '') | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end |