Hamlet, for two voices (after Ulises Carrión)

hamlet.py

# coding=UTF8
# Hamlet, for two voices
# after Ulises Carrión
#
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Carrión
#
# Ulises Carrión's recording of Hamlet, for two voices:
# https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyi3psnt0da2hu0/Hamlet%20for%20two%20voices.mp3?dl=0

# Uses the OS X "say" command.


import subprocess
import re

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

response = requests.get('http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html')

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

try:
    for ind, tag in enumerate(soup.find_all('a', {'name': re.compile('speech.*')})):
        # get first item with stripped tags
        name = next(tag.stripped_strings)

        # You will need to download the appropriate voices. The British English
        # Daniel and Kate do quite well.
        #
        # You might think that Mexican Spanish voices Juan and Angelica would be
        # better still, but they're not as good.

        if ind % 2 == 0:
            subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'daniel', '-r', '20', name])
        else:
            subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'kate', '-r', '20', name])

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    exit('aborted')

requirements.txt

requests
beautifulsoup4