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There's also a terminal incantation to input a text file and output a multi-hour long sound file of the entire document processed with text-to-speech. It's abo
by dingus 7y ago
There's also a terminal incantation to input a text file and output a multi-hour long sound file of the entire document processed with text-to-speech.
It's about what you'd expect it to sound like... almost unbearable. But maybe the updated Siri voices are better, I haven't tried it for a few years.
- ivan_ah 7y agoI believe the Alex voice is not synth, but actual phoneme voice files of a real human. When I look in `/System/Library/Speech/Voices` and run `du -sh *` I see Alex.SpeechVoice is 877MB so godda be something wav-like in there.