Reading aloud content of clipboard. espeak fro clipboard under Linux / X (should work under other unixes , if required change `xclip` to something else )

read_clipboard_espeak.sh

#!/bin/bash

# e.g. -s 300 to read faster :
# read_clipboard_espeak.sh -s 300
# espeak has other parameters too, check man espeak-ng

#TTSCMD=espeak
TTSCMD=espeak-ng

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        xclip -selection clipboard -o | "$TTSCMD" -ven
elif [ "$1" == "code" ]; then
        shift 1
        xclip -selection clipboard -o | "$TTSCMD" -ven --punct "$@"
else
        xclip -selection clipboard -o | "$TTSCMD" "$@"
fi

read_clipboard_espeak_in_loop.sh

#!/bin/bash

# this one checks clipboard in a loop and reads in case of changes. Try to detect URLs and not to read them.

# e.g. -s 300 to read faster :
# read_clipboard_espeak_in_loop.sh -s 300
# espeak has other parameters too, check man espeak-ng

#TTSCMD=espeak
TTSCMD=espeak-ng

TTSargs=("-ven")
if [ "$1" == "code" ]; then
  shift 1
  TTSargs=("-ven" "--punct")
fi

prev=""

while [ 1 ]; do
curr="$(xclip -selection clipboard -o)"
if [[ "$curr" != "$prev" ]]; then
        if [[ !  "$curr" =~ ^http ]]; then
                echo READING: "$curr"
                #set -x
                echo "$curr" | "$TTSCMD" ${TTSargs[*]} "$@"
                #set +x
        else
                echo IGNORING DUE TO "http" prefix: $curr
        fi
fi
prev="$curr"
sleep 0.25
done