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THE MACOS SAY COMMAND IS THE MOST FUN THING IN TERMINAL

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  1. Elena Alvarez
    @elena.alvarez

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts mac Terminal party trick:

    1. Open Terminal.
    2. Type say "I am your computer".
    3. Enjoy.

    Useful stuff: say -v ? lists voices, -r changes the speaking rate, and say -o out.aiff "some text" saves the speech to an audio file instead of playing it... i used that last one to make a quick voiceover draft for a slideshow... has anyone used it for something genuinely practical?

    rage

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  2. Luca T.
    @lthorne

    classic workflow trick: make && say success || say failed. u get a different spoken result depending on whether the build passed. hope that helps :)

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  4. Ivan
    @ivan_tensor

    on Linux, espeak or spd-say give you something similar, tho the voices are more robotic.

    somewhere an AI is confidently telling someone the wrong fix rn

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  5. Rowan Fontaine
    @quartzden

    you can download higher quality voices from System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > System voice > Manage Voices. then use them with -v. good luck man!

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  7. Nell Rossi
    @ping_bench

    nah tbh everyone keeps saying this but nobody posts proof. is macos even worth bothering with or should i just leave it

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  9. Cyrus
    @coppermonk-3k1

    hmmm mac user forever and never typed say in Terminal. just made my laptop say good morning to my cat.

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  10. Anika Adler
    @regexprobe

    i come back to this thread every week just for the drama. ok this thread just saved my weekend

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  11. Lina
    @cachebuilder

    this is a very old trick, Macs have had text-to-speech since the classic Mac OS days.. :D still fun though.

    have u tried turning it off and on again (im only half joking)

    thinking

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