speak.sh

#!/bin/bash

rawurlencode() {
   local string="${1}"
   local strlen=${#string}
   local encoded=""

   for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; pos++ )); do
      c=${string:$pos:1}
      case "$c" in
         [-_.~a-zA-Z0-9] ) o="${c}" ;;
         * ) printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
      esac
     encoded+="${o}"
   done
   echo "${encoded}"
}

if [ -z "$1" ]
 then
   echo "No text specified, exiting"
   exit
 else
   TEXT=$( rawurlencode "$1" )
fi
if [ -z "$2" ]
 then
   echo "No language supplied, using en"
   LANG="en"
 else
   LANG="$2"
fi

API="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$LANG&q=$TEXT"
hash="$(echo -n "$TEXT" | md5sum )"
UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.2 Safari/537.36"
wget -o /dev/null --user-agent="$UA" -O "/tmp/$hash.mp3" "$API"
mpg123 -q "/tmp/$hash.mp3"