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731 B
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31 lines
731 B
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
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# Description: Read a text or PDF file in British English
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# Shell: POSIX compliant
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# Author: Arun Prakash Jana
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if [ -n "$1" ]; then
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tmpf="$(basename "$1")"
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tmpf="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/"${tmpf%.*}"
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if [ "$(head -c 4 "$1")" = "%PDF" ]; then
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# Convert using pdftotext
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pdftotext -nopgbrk -layout "$1" - | sed 's/\xe2\x80\x8b//g' > "$tmpf".txt
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pico2wave -w "$tmpf".wav -l en-GB "$(tr '\n' ' ' < "$tmpf".txt)"
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rm "$tmpf".txt
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else
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pico2wave -w "$tmpf".wav -l en-GB "$(tr '\n' ' ' < "$1")"
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fi
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# to jump around and note the time
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mpv "$tmpf".wav
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# flat read but better quality
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# play -qV0 "$tmpf".wav treble 2 gain -l 2
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rm "$tmpf".wav
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fi
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