Comments on: Speech synthesis on the OS X command line

By: Matthew Elvey

Matthew Elvey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:16:15 +0000

Thanks! I’m trying to use this to run meetings:

say “Hello, and welcome to the meeting. We begin with announcements. 10 minutes. Begin”
sleep 540
say “9 minutes have passed”
sleep 60
say “ok, Time up”
say “What’s next?”
say “Items we will discuss for 5 minutes. Ready?”
say “Item 1: Widget output. Yes, I can even read the agenda items to us. If I do that, it could help keep us on track…”

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:04:28 +0000

Oops that should have been:

say -o plugh.aiff "plugh"

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:24 +0000

It turns out that unix is perfect: the > symbol just redirects standard output from the terminal to a file. So it should make an empty file.

If you want to send the output an aiff file use:

say "plugh" -o plugh.aiff

you can see this an more with

man say