google-dictionary-text-to-speech.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

phrase = "Welcome too mountain view"

mp3s = []

phrase.split(' ').each do |word|
  doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en%7Cen&hl=en&q=#{word}"))
  a = doc.search('#pronunciation a')[0]
  if a
    href = a.attributes['href']
    `curl -qO #{href}`
    mp3s << href.split('/').last
  end
end

mp3s.each do |mp3|
  `afplay #{mp3}`
end