platypush/platypush/plugins/tts/__init__.py

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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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