[Mac] save text to speech to a file using cli

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Uploaded by on Nov 8, 2009

Using the "say" tool on the Mac OS X command line makes it easy to save text to speech as an audio file.

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  • Doesn't work. You're so excited about being fast and putting quirky music on, you didn't think to maybe slow down a bit, and use a higher resolution so we can actually read the screen.

  • Theres an eyelash in my eye :(

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  • What's this song?

  • 1000th veiwer!

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  • Excellent! Straight to the point. Cool song.

  • @cmaxelman

    The song is Ievan Polkka (Leva's Polka) by Loituma.

  • The relevant command is this:

    say -o output.aiff -f textfile.txt

    What's the song?

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