Google Translate text-to-speech client

speak.py

#!/usr/bin/env python                                                                                                                                                          
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import os
import urllib
import urllib2
import subprocess

def speak(text, language, filename):
    """
    """
    headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1"}
    query_string = urllib.urlencode({"tl": language, "q": text})
    request = urllib2.Request("http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?%s" % query_string, headers=headers)

    f = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    out = file(filename, "w")

    out.write(f.read())
    out.close()

    subprocess.call(["afplay", filename])


def main():
    """
    """
    import optparse
    p = optparse.OptionParser()

    p.add_option("--text", "-t", default="Testing",
        help="input text")
    p.add_option("--language", "-l", default="en",
        help="input text language")
    p.add_option("--file", "-f", default="speech.mp3",
        help="output file")

    options = p.parse_args()[0]

    if options.text:
        return speak(options.text, options.language, options.file)

    p.print_help()
    sys.exit(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()