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This script converts a plain text file, e.g. article.txt into a mp3 audiobook using the MacOS text-to-speech accessibility command-line tool `say`. Adjust the `VOICE` and `RATE` parameters to customize to your liking. Note this requires running on MacOS.
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| set -e | |
| # This script converts any text file into a mp3 audiobook using the MacOS | |
| # text-to-speech accessibility command-line tool `say`. | |
| # Adjust the `VOICE` and `RATE` parameters to customize to your liking: | |
| VOICE="Alex" | |
| RATE="295" # pretty fast | |
| if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then | |
| echo "Usage: $0 article.txt"; | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| txtfilename="$1" | |
| aifffilename="$(basename -- "$txtfilename" .txt).aiff" | |
| mp3filename="$(basename -- "$txtfilename" .txt).mp3" | |
| echo "Convering $txtfilename to mp3..." | |
| # 1. Speak the text file, saving as an .aiff audio file | |
| say -v $VOICE -r $RATE -f "$txtfilename" -o "$aifffilename" | |
| # 2. Convert the .aiff to .mp3 | |
| ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error \ | |
| -i "$aifffilename" \ | |
| -b:a 128k "$mp3filename" | |
| # 3. Remove the .aiff file | |
| rm "$aifffilename" | |
| echo "Done. Result saved to $PWD/$mp3filename" |
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