tomriley · March 9, 2010 22:55 · Mar 9, 2010
diff --git a/google-dictionary-text-to-speech.rb b/google-dictionary-text-to-speech.rb
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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'hpricot'
+require 'open-uri'
+
+phrase = "Welcome too mountain view"
+
+mp3s = []
+
+phrase.split(' ').each do |word|
+  doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en%7Cen&hl=en&q=#{word}"))
+  a = doc.search('#pronunciation a')[0]
+  if a
+    href = a.attributes['href']
+    `curl -qO #{href}`
+    mp3s << href.split('/').last
+  end
+end
+
+mp3s.each do |mp3|
+  `afplay #{mp3}`
+end