A script that converts text-to-speech

google-tts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import base64
import sys

import requests


def main(text, filename):
    r = requests.post(
        "https://cxl-services.appspot.com/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexttospeech.googleapis.com%2Fv1beta1%2Ftext%3Asynthesize",
        json={
            "input": {
                "ssml": "<speak>%s</speak>" % text
            },
            "voice": {
                "languageCode": "en-US",
                "name": "en-US-Wavenet-F"
            },
            "audioConfig": {
                "audioEncoding": "MP3",
                "pitch": "0.0",
                "speakingRate": "1.00"
            }
        }
    )

    data = base64.b64decode(r.json()["audioContent"])
    with open(filename, "wb") as outfile:
        outfile.write(data)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print("Usage: google-tts.py <text> <output MP3 filename>")
        sys.exit(1)

    main(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])