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macos has the "say" binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this

ryanmcbride 2y ago
a billion years ago I piped say and some various noise files into ffmpeg to make audios that sounded like numbers stations, I don't think it would run anymore but it was a lot of fun :D
nomel 2y ago
I did something similar for finding which outlet a breaker went to. I connected my MacBook to the outlet, airplay to the TV so it was loud, then had it yell if the power was disconnected: while ! pmset -g batt | grep 'discharging'; do; echo waiting; sleep 1; done; say disconnected
centur 2y ago
Back in windows and powershell days, this was my favorite "security reminder" prank. Everyone who forgot to lock their machine and walked away got this script executed on their machines. TLDR: it schedules a task "Security Reminder" to play "I'm watching you" via voice synth, every 30 mins. ``` $action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'Powershell.exe' -Argument '-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -command "& {[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(""System.Speech"") | Out-Null; (New-Object (""System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer"")).Speak(""I''m watching you"")}"' $period = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30; $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30) -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Days 1024) -At 9am -Once Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName "Security reminder" -Description "Security Reminder" ``` You can imagine people faces, especially many were sitting in headphones in open space offices. Those were the days...
layer8 2y ago
That reminds me of the Say tool on the Amiga almost 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_music_software#Speech_synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_music_software#Speech_sy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5IFzGiTEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5IFzGiTEk
mrbombastic 2y ago
I often use this when i want some feedback from a script somewhere running on my machine but don’t know where output is going

a billion years ago I piped say and some various noise files into ffmpeg to make audios that sounded like numbers stations, I don't think it would run anymore but it was a lot of fun :D

nomel 2y ago

I did something similar for finding which outlet a breaker went to. I connected my MacBook to the outlet, airplay to the TV so it was loud, then had it yell if the power was disconnected: while ! pmset -g batt | grep 'discharging'; do; echo waiting; sleep 1; done; say disconnected

centur 2y ago

Back in windows and powershell days, this was my favorite "security reminder" prank. Everyone who forgot to lock their machine and walked away got this script executed on their machines. TLDR: it schedules a task "Security Reminder" to play "I'm watching you" via voice synth, every 30 mins. ``` $action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'Powershell.exe' -Argument '-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -command "& {[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(""System.Speech"") | Out-Null; (New-Object (""System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer"")).Speak(""I''m watching you"")}"' $period = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30; $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30) -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Days 1024) -At 9am -Once Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName "Security reminder" -Description "Security Reminder" ``` You can imagine people faces, especially many were sitting in headphones in open space offices. Those were the days...

layer8 2y ago

That reminds me of the Say tool on the Amiga almost 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_music_software#Speech_synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_music_software#Speech_sy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5IFzGiTEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5IFzGiTEk

mrbombastic 2y ago

I often use this when i want some feedback from a script somewhere running on my machine but don’t know where output is going