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+#Copyright (c) 2009-11, Walter Bender, Tony Forster
+
+# This procedure is invoked when the user-definable block on the
+# "extras" palette is selected.
+
+# Usage: Import this code into a Python (user-definable) block and
+# pass a string to be read by the voice synthesizer. If a second
+# argument is passed, by expanding the Python block, it is used to specify
+# the pitch level of the speaker. Valid range is 0 to 99.
+
+
+def myblock(tw, arg):
+    ''' Text to speech '''
+
+    TABLE = {'af': 'afrikaans', 'cy': 'welsh-test', 'el': 'greek',
+             'es': 'spanish', 'hi': 'hindi-test', 'hy': 'armenian',
+             'ku': 'kurdish', 'mk': 'macedonian-test', 'pt': 'brazil',
+             'sk': 'slovak', 'sw': 'swahili', 'bs': 'bosnian', 'da': 'danish',
+             'en': 'english', 'fi': 'finnish', 'hr': 'croatian',
+             'id': 'indonesian-test', 'la': 'latin', 'nl': 'dutch-test',
+             'sq': 'albanian', 'ta': 'tamil', 'vi': 'vietnam-test',
+             'ca': 'catalan', 'de': 'german', 'eo': 'esperanto',
+             'fr': 'french', 'hu': 'hungarian', 'is': 'icelandic-test',
+             'lv': 'latvian', 'no': 'norwegian', 'ro': 'romanian',
+             'sr': 'serbian', 'zh': 'Mandarin', 'cs': 'czech', 'it': 'italian',
+             'pl': 'polish', 'ru': 'russian_test', 'sv': 'swedish',
+             'tr': 'turkish'}
+    import os
+
+    pitch = None
+    if type(arg) == type([]):
+        text = arg[0]
+        if len(arg) > 1:
+            pitch = int(arg[1])
+            if pitch > 99:
+                pitch = 99
+            elif pitch < 0:
+                pitch = 0
+    else:
+        text = arg
+
+    # Turtle Art numbers are passed as float,
+    # but they may be integer values.
+    if type(text) == float and int(text) == text:
+        text = int(text)
+
+    lang = os.environ['LANG'][0:2]
+    if lang in TABLE:
+        language_option = '-v ' + TABLE[lang]
+    else:
+        language_option = ''
+    if pitch is None:
+        os.system('espeak %s "%s" --stdout | aplay' % (language_option,
+                                                         text))
+    else:
+        os.system('espeak %s "%s" -p "%s" --stdout | aplay' % (
+                language_option, text, pitch))