Quick replacement for mac os `say` using Google Text To Speech

say.py

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/51164950/148668
#
# python3 -m pip install gtts playsound pyobjc 
from gtts import gTTS
import sys
from io import BytesIO
import objc
import playsound
import tempfile
import argparse
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='`say` replacement using gtts')

parser.add_argument('text', type=str, nargs='?', help="Text to be read (also accepted from stdin)" )
parser.add_argument('-o','--output-file', type=str,
                    help='An optional output file argument')


args = parser.parse_args()

input_text = sys.stdin.read() if args.text == None else args.text

tts = gTTS(text=input_text, lang='en', slow=False)

if args.output_file is None:
    filename = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile().name
else:
    filename = sys.argv[2]
tts.save(filename)
if args.output_file is None:
    playsound.playsound(filename)