Google Text To Speech in Python (TTS), more info at http://alexsleat.co.uk/2011/11/14/python-making-use-of-googles-text-to-speech-translation-tool/

argvURLfriendly.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys		#for cmd line argv

#take command line args as the input string
input_string = sys.argv
#remove the program name from the argv list
input_string.pop(0)

#convert to google friendly url (with + replacing spaces)
tts_string = '+'.join(input_string)

print tts_string

playMP3stream.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import time		#for delay
import pygst		#for playing mp3 stream
import gst		# " "

#Play an .mp3 file from the internet
music_stream_uri = 'http://www.sample-url.com/file.mp3'
player = gst.element_factory_make("playbin", "player")
player.set_property('uri', music_stream_uri)
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

#requires a delay, if the py process closes before the mp3 has finished it will be cut off.
time.sleep(12)

ttsString.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys		#for cmd line argv
import time		#for delay
import pygst		#for playing mp3 stream
import gst		# " "

#take command line args as the input string
input_string = sys.argv
#remove the program name from the argv list
input_string.pop(0)

#convert to google friendly url (with + replacing spaces)
tts_string = '+'.join(input_string)

print tts_string

#use string in combination with the translate url as the stream to be played
music_stream_uri = 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=' + tts_string
player = gst.element_factory_make("playbin", "player")
player.set_property('uri', music_stream_uri)
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

#requires a delay, if the py process closes before the mp3 has finished it will be cut off.
time.sleep(12)