Gets text from clipboard and reads in the detected language (using the espeak tts system).

speak

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
#  speak.py
#  
#  Copyleft 2016 Eduardo França <@edo9k>
#  
#  to install
#  $ sudo apt install python-pip
#  $ pip install future langdetect pyperclip sh
#  

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function
from sh import espeak
from langdetect import detect
import pyperclip

    
def do_the_synth(text_line, language, speed):
  espeak('-v', language, '-s', speed, text_line)

def main(args):
    
  if len(args) > 1:
      if args[1] == '--speed':
          speed = int(args[2])
  else:
    speed = 360 # reading speed
  
  text = pyperclip.paste()

  language = detect(unicode(text)) # detect text language

  text = text.split('\n')
  text = list(filter(None, text)) # remove empty lines

  
  for index, line in enumerate(text):
    print("{}\n[{}/{}]".format(line, (index + 1), len(text)))
    do_the_synth(line, language, speed)
  
  return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
  import sys
  try:
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print("\n")
  except Exception:
    traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
    

Stuff to add:

• save to audio file option (either mp3 or ogg)
• add other tts backends