Use Google Translate's Text to Speech without leaving the terminal.

tts

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Sample usage : tts "your text here"
#           or : tts your text here (if there are no symbol)

tts() {
	input="$@"
	
	# https://stackoverflow.com/a/56321886/9157799
	query=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote('$input'))")

	# https://stackoverflow.com/a/10054006/9157799
	curl -sH 'Referer: http://translate.google.com/' -H 'User-Agent: stagefright/1.2 (Linux;Android 5.0)' "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&tl=en&q=$query" > ~/.tts.mp3

	# https://askubuntu.com/a/316048/356625
	ffplay -nodisp -autoexit ~/.tts.mp3 2> /dev/null
	rm ~/.tts.mp3
}