Track Announcer MPRIS

This is a command line program that speaks the track/media title when a new track starts playing on a media player that follows the MPRIS D-Bus interface specification.

Setup

You will need:

• D-Bus (e.g. libdbus-1-dev on Ubuntu)
• GObject Introspection (e.g. libgirepository1.0-dev on Ubuntu)
• Python 3
• A text to speech program (e.g. eSpeak NG, Festival, Flite)

You can use a Python virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Install Python dependencies with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Run the bin/track-announcer script. When the script is running, it will detect when a new track starts playing.

By default, track-announcer uses the speak executable (provided by eSpeak NG). You can use a different program by using the --speak-command-template option with a command template string where %s will be replaced by the track title.

Tests

To run the unit tests, run:

python -m unittest