google_tts: simple python script to convert text to speech based on Google Translate

tts.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests
import sys
import playsound
import time

try:
    import readline
except:
    pass

def speak_(text, hl):
    url = "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts"
    params = {
            'ie': 'UTF-8',
            'q': text,
            'tl': hl,
            'client': 'tw-ob',
            }
    headers = {
            'Referer': 'http://translate.google.com/',
            'User-Agent': 'stagefright/1.2 (Linux;Android 5.0)',
            }
    tts_r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
    with open("temp_audio.mp3", "wb") as file_au:
        file_au.write(tts_r.content)
        file_au.close()
    playsound.playsound("temp_audio.mp3", True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("""\
.---------------------------------.
| Google Translate Text-to-Speech |
| Author: P4kL0nc4t               |
`---------------------------------`
""")
    if len(sys.argv) != 2 or len(sys.argv[1]) != 2:
        print("usage: {} <language_code:id/en/etc>".format(sys.argv[0]))
        sys.exit(-1)
    hl = sys.argv[1]
    while True:
        try:
            text = raw_input("[{}-text]: ".format(hl)).rstrip()
        except:
            print("")
            sys.exit(-1)
        if text == "" in text.lower():
            continue
        print("Speaking . . .")
        speak_(text, hl)