Saytex is a CLI that utilizes different voices to act out a script.
Mac OS X has a terminal command called 'say' which converts text to audible speech which can be found here. There are also many voices to choose from which we can specify in our command.
say --voice=Alex "Hi, this is Alex speaking."
say --voice=Victoria "Now Victoria is speaking."
First we need to find a collection of well-formatted transcripts. We can use episode transcripts of SpongeBob Squarepants which are publicly available here. We will use "Chocolate with Nuts" as our input example.
We can generate a saytex directory by doing the following:
$ # saytex.py <input-file> <output-directory>
$ saytex.py choco_with_nuts_transcript.txt saytex_choco
After a saytex directory has been generated, we can play it whenever we want:
$ # play.py <input-directory>
$ play.py saytex_choco
This was implemented in the span of several hours so the code is not very readable in its current state. Some major refactoring at some point in the future.