Words or text file to audio with pico2wave and pico-tts
Generate a nice audio notification from a few words :
https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-words-to-ogg.sh
It’s the end of the day, your eyes are tired but you want to read that last post on @stefano 's blog. With pico-tts, you can listen to it instead!
First save the page, convert it to text (eg with w3m), then use this script to obtain the corresponding ogg file :
https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh
Usage :
pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh --help
pico-words-to-ogg.sh --help
Requisites : you’ll need pico2wave, pico-tts (aur packages avail for arch), sox and ffmpeg.