Yeah the "say" command just causes the speech synthesizer to speak. The dollar
left parenthesis is used to start another command line and have it placed on
the same line as the current text. The end of that command is marked with a
right parentheses.
if you type
say Hello Paul
Your computer will speak
Hello Paul
You can also use say to speak a file. This is essentially what save spoken text
to iTunes script does.
Also of interest when playing with the say commands is that the Apple's Speech
Synthesizer can take commands by putting them on a single line enclosed in
brackets. There are commands for speed and pitch and there might even be a way
to change voice mid-stream using these commands. I haven't seen any references
to doing this in about five years, but I would be highly surprised if that
functionality got removed.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Jun 26, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Sharon Hooley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a little background in programming, but not this much. I just want to
> make sure, from the rest of this group, that it is safe. If so, I’d like to
> try it!
>
> Thanks for sharing,
>
>> On Jun 26, 2017, at 5:50 PM, -dan d. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Try each of these terminal commands in turn. Cut and paste when in terminal
>> and hit enter.
>>
>> say -v daniel $(date +"%A %m-%d")
>>
>> say -v daniel $(date +"%I:%M %p")
>>
>> Change "daniel" to a voice of your choice and do it again.
>>
>> XB
>> XB
>>
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