accessibility/svox: Add man page for pico2audio.

Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/accessibility/svox/pico2audio b/accessibility/svox/pico2audio
index 4f09c8805bf9..673950eb838c 100644
--- a/accessibility/svox/pico2audio
+++ b/accessibility/svox/pico2audio
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Exit status of $SELF is that of pico2wave.
 Examples:
 
   $SELF 'Hello world.'
-    Speaks "Hello world" in the default language (en-US)
+    Speaks "Hello world" in the default language (en-US).
 
   $SELF -l en-GB 'Hello world.'
     As above, in a British accent.
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ case "$1" in
         ;;
   -l)   LOPT="$1 $2"
         shift
+        if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+          echo "$(basename $0): missing argument to -l option" 1>&2
+          exit 1
+        fi
         shift
         ;;
   -l?*) LOPT="$1"
@@ -46,15 +50,22 @@ case "$1" in
         ;;
 esac
 
+which pico2wave >/dev/null || exit 1
+which play      >/dev/null || exit 1
+
 DIR=$( mktemp -t -d pico2audio.XXXXXX )
 if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]; then
   exit 1 # mktemp already printed an error message
 fi
 
-which pico2wave >/dev/null || exit 1
-which play      >/dev/null || exit 1
+# the actual pico2wave command accepts multiple word arguments,
+# but only speaks the first one (silently ignores the rest).
+# here we combine all the word args into one quoted string and
+# pass it to pico2wave via eval, so it sees one argument, possibly
+# with spaces.
+[ -n "$*" ] && ARGS="\"$@\""
 
-pico2wave $LOPT -w $DIR/tmp.wav "$@"
+eval pico2wave $LOPT -w $DIR/tmp.wav $ARGS
 E="$?"
 play -q $DIR/tmp.wav 2>/dev/null
 rm -rf $DIR