platypush/platypush/plugins/tts/__init__.py

import subprocess
import urllib.parse

from platypush.plugins import Plugin, action

class TtsPlugin(Plugin):
    """
    Default Text-to-Speech plugin. It leverages Google Translate.

    Requires:

        * **mplayer** - see your distribution docs on how to install the mplayer package
    """

    def __init__(self, lang='en-gb'):
        super().__init__()
        self.lang=lang

    @action
    def say(self, text, language=None):
        """
        Say a phrase

        :param text: Phrase to say
        :type text: str

        :param language: Language code
        :type language: str
        """
        if language is None: language=self.lang
        output = None
        errors = []
        cmd = ['mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols ' +
               '"http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?{}"'
               .format(urllib.parse.urlencode({
                   'ie'     : 'UTF-8',
                   'client' : 'tw-ob',
                   'tl'     : language,
                   'q'      : text,
                }))]

        try:
            return subprocess.check_output(
                cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True).decode('utf-8')
        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
            raise RuntimeError(e.output.decode('utf-8'))


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