ttempe/chinese-support-addon — pull request #13 by ospalh (2012-11-11 14:27:59+00:00)
Title: Simpler Google TTS. Just download.

The audio processing does require alpha code that i don't recommend users install.
I would go so far as to recommend to not install pysox and pydub, at least for now.

Without that, the code can be whittled down quite a bit. For example you don't need the temp file any more when you don't change the file after download. I’ve also hard-coded the `zh` for zhong-whatever.

(I am in the process of removing the audio processing for my Download audio addon, too.)

[pysox](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysox) isn't really something that a typical user can install, and i don't know how i would get it to run on a Windows machine at all. I even had to do some fixes on my Linux machine.

It also produces [invalid ogg vorbis files](http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7577), so i wouldn’t use that format.
I coded that audio processing, because files you get from Forvo.com need normalization, but i think for TTS output you really don’t need any processing.

(I've seen you've removed the blacklist bits. Good move. Those were just for Japanesepod.)