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Howto: Making Your Mac Talk Via Command Line

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Did you know you can make your Mac speak out loud whatever you want via command line? I didn’t.

Here’s how:

  1. Open a terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal).
  2. Type in say eat my balls (or whatever you want, just put “say” in front of it).
  3. Sit back, listen, giggle and waste your entire day making your computer say really dirty things.
  4. Know you are really, really cool.

You can also have your mac read entire text files by using this command:
say -f PATH/TO/FILE.TXT

Sweet! You may find that for some words, in order for your Mac to pronounce them correctly, you’ll need to spell them phonetically, but whatever…

Type the command man say for the manual on how to use this command and the various options and things you can do with it.