alternating between 16 edge-tts English voices [howto]

[mrfragger]

To just do one chapter with the same voice a simple for in loop works.

for f in .txt; do edge-tts --voice en-US-SteffanNeural -f "$f" --write-media "${f%.}.mp3"; done

it took me many hours of trying to figure out how to alternate voices...nested loops, arrays, etc. Finally got it..just access multiple arrays. I don't know how to repeat an array so just added voices like 6 or 7 times so it can do a tad over 100 chapters of text each with a different voice....hit 16 then repeats.

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/datampv/editing
[ ! -d edgetts ] && mkdir edgetts
cd edgetts
echo "Install pip3 install edgetts"
echo ""
echo "Put all text files to transcribe"
echo "in ~/datampv/editing/edgetts"
read -p "Press ENTER to transcribe with alternating edge-tts voices: "
st=$SECONDS
rm files.txt
for f in *.txt
    do echo "$f" >> files.txt
done
files=()
    while read line; do files+=("$line"); done < files.txt
voice=( en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural en-US-AriaNeural en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural en-US-ChristopherNeural en-CA-ClaraNeural en-US-EricNeural en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural en-US-GuyNeural en-US-JennyNeural en-US-RogerNeural en-US-MichelleNeural en-GB-RyanNeural en-GB-LibbyNeural en-US-SteffanNeural en-GB-SoniaNeural )
for i in ${!files[*]}
    do edge-tts -f "${files[$i]}" --voice "${voice[$i]}" --write-media "${files[$i]%.*}".mp3
done
secs=$((SECONDS-st)); printf '\nedge-tts took %02dh:%02dm:%02ds \n' $(($secs/3600)) $(($secs%3600/60)) $(($secs%60))