text-to-speech

A small text-to-speech (PDF or TXT) shell script utilizing pdftotext, say, and ffmpeg.

Dependencies

• pdftotext (in case you have a PDF as input file): https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/pdftotext
• say (is part of MacOS)
• ffmpeg (to convert voice to audio, i.e. aiff > m4a): https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ffmpeg

Supported languages

• DE
• EN
• fell free to fork

How to use it?

./text-to-speech EN in.pdf
./text-to-speech DE in.pdf
./text-to-speech EN in.txt

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license - see the LICENSE file for details.