Read whatever is copied to clipboard (text-to-speech or tts) using nothing but cvlc and curl

say.sh

#!/bin/bash

## Needs cvlc and curl installed
if ! (which cvlc >/dev/null && which curl >/dev/null); then
  echo 'Please make sure cvlc and curl are installed and added to the execution path'
  exit 1;
fi

say() {
  echo "$@" | tr . "\n" | tr \; "\n" | tr : "\n" | tr , "\n" | \
  split -C200 --filter='tee /dev/stderr | curl -m2 -sG --data-urlencode q@- -A b "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&tl=En-us" | cvlc --rate 1.2 --play-and-exit - &>/dev/null'
}

prev=$(xclip -o -select clipboard);
while :; do
  sleep 0.5;
  text=$(xclip -o -select clipboard);
  if [ "$prev" == "$text" ]; then
    continue;
  else
    prev="$text";
    say $text;
  fi;
done