Elmit

Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal as Hex package.

Installation

• brew install elixir
• mix deps.get
• mix escript.build
• ln ./elmit /usr/local/bin

Usage

elmit 'source_language' 'target_language' 'text'

Example:

elmit en es "hey cowboy where is your horse?"
=> "Hey vaquero dónde está tu caballo?"

elmit fr en "qui est votre papa?"
=> "Who's Your Daddy?"

Speech synthesis

Specify a -t (talk) flag to use speech synthesis (requires mpg123):

elmit en zh "hey cowboy where is your horse?" -t
=> "嘿，牛仔是你的马在哪里？" # and a chinese voice says something about a horse

You can use elmit as a speech synthesizer of any supported language without having to translate anything:

elmit en en "hold your horses cowboy !" -t
=> "hold your horses cowboy !" # and an english voice asks you to hold on

Synonyms

Specify a -s (synonyms) flag to get the list of synonyms if available:

elmit es en muchacho -s
=> boy
=> Synonyms: boy, lad, youngster, laddie, cully

Requirements

To use speech synthesis you need to have mpg123 installed.

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mpg123

For MacOSX:

brew install mpg123