[LINK] OS X silliness (its almost Friday!)

Rick Welykochy rick at vitendo.ca
Fri May 16 03:43:51 AEST 2014


Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> On 15 May 2014, at 10:56 pm, Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah ah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"
>> 4:5: syntax error: Expected “given”, “in”, “of”, expression, “with”, “without”, other parameter name, etc. but found unknown token. (-2741)
> You must not have “say” on your mac… I tried it as a directory listing
>
>   ls |say -v cellos
>
> and it will sing the files in the directory ;)
>

And to get a greeting in all available voices:

for v in $(say -v ? | cut -f 1 -d ' '); do say hello from $v -v "$v"; done


cheer
rickw


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