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stophlong / pythonista_google_tts.py
Created February 2, 2014 19:28
Ios 7 pythonista script: takes clipboard (in Spanish) and reads it aloud (in Spanish) using Google Text to Speech
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
""" ios clipboard to google TTS (in Spanish)
This was written for ios pythonista, a python 2.x language. It takes whatever is in the clipboard
and reads it out using google text-to-speech. The present form takes Spanish and reads it aloud as my
interest is in learning to understand spoken Spanish. I take text from the immersion part of
Duolingo and listen. It should be quite easy to modify for different purposes.
On a jail-broken device one can even: copy to clipboard, use activator to launch the pythonista script, and
have it start speaking! I simple gathered some python from the web, fit it together, debugged a bit, and I
had a new tool. Pythonista blew my mind.