A Flask wrapper around say Mac OS

talkie.py

from flask import Flask
import subprocess
 
app = Flask(__name__)
 
def talkie(voice, text):
    try:
        output, error = subprocess.Popen(
                            ["say", "-v", voice, text], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
        print output
        return output
    except:
        app.logger.warn('An error occurred')
        return 'error'
 
@app.route("/voices")
def voices():
    return talkie('?', '')
 
@app.route("/<voice>/<text>")
def say_voice(voice='Alex', text=None):
    print text
    return talkie(voice, text)
 
@app.route("/<text>")
def say(text=None):
    if text == 'favicon.ico':
        return
    print text
    return talkie('Alex', text)
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')