Convert Google Document to an "Audiobook" with Mac's built-in text-to-speech!

gdoc_to_audio.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash

# Configure
DOC_NAME="DOC NAME"
DOC_ID="DOC ID"
TOKEN="MY_TOKEN"
READ_SPEED=170;

URL="https://docs.google.com/document/export?format=txt&id=${DOC_ID}&token=${TOKEN}, https://docs.google.com/document/d/${DOC_ID}/edit"
DOWNLOAD_DIR="audio_books"
RAW_DOWNLOAD_PATH="${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/${DOC_NAME}.txt";
CLEAN_PATH="${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/${DOC_NAME}-clean.txt";
AUDIO_PATH="${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/${DOC_NAME}.m4a";

mkdir -p "$DOWNLOAD_DIR"
wget --quiet "$URL" -O "$RAW_DOWNLOAD_PATH"
vim "$RAW_DOWNLOAD_PATH"

node -e "
    // Dependencies
    var fs = require('fs');

    // Configure
    var rawPath = process.argv[1];
    var cleanPath = process.argv[2];

    // Read file
    var text = fs.readFileSync(rawPath).toString();

    // Clean
    console.log('Read ' + text.split('\n').length + ' lines');
    cleanText = text.split('\n')
        .map((line) => line.replace(/(?:https?|ftp):\/\/[\n\S]+/g, 'URL'))
        .map((line) => line.replace('etc', 'et cetera'))
   	.map((line) => line.replace(/^to-do.*$/img, ''))
	.map((line) => line.replace(/^https?\:.*$/img, ''))
	.map((line) => line.replace(/^.*\.{png,jpg}$/img, 'Image'))
        .map((line) => line.trim())
        .filter((line) => line.length > 0)
        .map((line) => (/^.*[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]+$/g).test(line) ? line : line + '.' )
        .join('\n');


    // Save clean file
    fs.writeFileSync(cleanPath, cleanText);
    console.log('Write ' + cleanText.split('\n').length + ' lines');
    console.log('Saved to', cleanPath);

" "$RAW_DOWNLOAD_PATH" "$CLEAN_PATH"

say -v "Ava" -f "$CLEAN_PATH" -r $READ_SPEED -o "$AUDIO_PATH"