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 or with:

$ xcodebuild -workspace TTSLanguage.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace -scheme TTSLanguage archive -archivePath $PWD/build/TTSLanguage.xcarchive && open build/TTSLanguage.xcarchive/Products/usr/local/bin/ 

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

• HTML parsing with SwiftSoup (https://github.com/scinfu/SwiftSoup.git)
• Using NaturalLanguage framework available in macOS 10.14 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/naturallanguage)