#!/usr/bin/env sh # Description: Read a text or PDF file in British English # # Shell: POSIX compliant # Author: Arun Prakash Jana if ! [ -z "$1" ]; then tmpf=`basename "$1"` tmpf="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/"${tmpf%.*}" if [ $(head -c 4 "$1") = "%PDF" ]; then # Convert using pdftotext pdftotext -nopgbrk -layout "$1" - | sed 's/\xe2\x80\x8b//g' > "$tmpf".txt pico2wave -w "$tmpf".wav -l en-GB "$(tr '\n' ' ' < "$tmpf".txt)" rm "$tmpf".txt else pico2wave -w "$tmpf".wav -l en-GB "$(tr '\n' ' ' < "$1")" fi # to jump around and note the time mpv "$tmpf".wav # flat read but better quality # play -qV0 "$tmpf".wav treble 2 gain -l 2 rm "$tmpf".wav fi