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My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices. Try this out: say hello -v Good

by milla88 12y ago

milla88 12y ago
For anyone wondering, you can also do this: say -v '?' (This gives you a list of voices) say -v Good (This let's you type in a stream of text)
- microtherion 12y ago
  A newer trick (as of Mavericks) is that say can also highlight words while reading text: say --interactive=/green spending each day the color of the leaves
- SloopJon 12y ago
  In Mavericks, selecting Customize from the System Voice dropdown of the Dictation & Speech preferences brings up a list of voices you can download as well. I think Alex was my default, but some of the others seem much better.
marceldegraaf 12y ago
It knows how to sing "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" as well: say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"
- Angostura 12y ago
  OK, how did you discover that?
  - enneff 12y ago
    The "cellos" voice always sings that song, regardless of the words you ask it to speak. The syllables were chosen to fit the song.
    - kroger 12y ago
      Nice! You can do something like: python -c "print 'foo ' * 26" | say -v cellos
minikomi 12y ago
Just mucking around, came up with this: wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -I {} jot -r {} 100000 | paste -d " " - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | awk '{print $2 "! "}' | say
- deleted 12y ago
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- pavel_lishin 12y ago
  If you install coreutils (`brew install coreutils`), you can cut that down a bit: gshuf /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 10 | awk '{print $1 "! "}' | say
zimpenfish 12y ago
I used `say` to read out the cricket scores from a screenscraping bot whilst the TV (which was the radio at the time) was in use for games. Not quite TMS but it had a certain charm.
- pavel_lishin 12y ago
  Whenever I had to run something that would take awhile, I would append '; say "YOUR THING IS DONE"' to the end so I'd be aware of when it finished.

My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices. Try this out: say hello -v Good

by milla88 12y ago

My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices. Try this out: say hello -v Good

For anyone wondering, you can also do this: say -v '?' (This gives you a list of voices) say -v Good (This let's you type in a stream of text)

microtherion 12y ago
A newer trick (as of Mavericks) is that say can also highlight words while reading text: say --interactive=/green spending each day the color of the leaves
SloopJon 12y ago
In Mavericks, selecting Customize from the System Voice dropdown of the Dictation & Speech preferences brings up a list of voices you can download as well. I think Alex was my default, but some of the others seem much better.

marceldegraaf 12y ago

It knows how to sing "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" as well: say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"

Angostura 12y ago
OK, how did you discover that?
- enneff 12y ago
  The "cellos" voice always sings that song, regardless of the words you ask it to speak. The syllables were chosen to fit the song.
  - kroger 12y ago
    Nice! You can do something like: python -c "print 'foo ' * 26" | say -v cellos

minikomi 12y ago

Just mucking around, came up with this: wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -I {} jot -r {} 100000 | paste -d " " - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | awk '{print $2 "! "}' | say

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pavel_lishin 12y ago
If you install coreutils (`brew install coreutils`), you can cut that down a bit: gshuf /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 10 | awk '{print $1 "! "}' | say

zimpenfish 12y ago

I used `say` to read out the cricket scores from a screenscraping bot whilst the TV (which was the radio at the time) was in use for games. Not quite TMS but it had a certain charm.

pavel_lishin 12y ago
Whenever I had to run something that would take awhile, I would append '; say "YOUR THING IS DONE"' to the end so I'd be aware of when it finished.