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English is not my first language, and I didn't realize it was "google say" at first, so I was sitting here scratching my head wondering how you could possibly pronounce this word. Interesting that it's a shell script and not so much a browser extension or something. I guess this is for when you're knee deep in terminals?

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> I guess this is for when you're knee deep in terminals?

One can use it directly in terminal or it can be used as a dependency tool in other scripts similar to the way other UNIX tools are used. For example I use it as a pronunciation player in my dictionary dict-master [1]. It's a shell script too.

Another example (run two times so it uses the cache the second time):

  echo this unix pipeline is poor man text to speech | xargs -n 1 gsay

[1]: https://github.com/pvonmoradi/dict-master

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