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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 2 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.513s | source
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Hamuko ◴[27 Jun 23 14:59 UTC] No.36493850[source]▶
You can use `say` to recreate your own Serial Experiments Lain intros.

  say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"
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blacksmith_tb ◴[27 Jun 23 17:38 UTC] No.36496189[source]▶
You may have to install extra voices somehow, looking at the manpage for say, it seems like 'say -v ?' would list the voices installed, but I don't seem to have any (like Whisper), though plain old 'say "hello world"' does do a robotic voice which must be the default.
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1. Hamuko ◴[27 Jun 23 19:33 UTC] No.36497584[source]▶
You can install additional voices in System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System voice → Manage voices (in Ventura).

"Whisper" is listed under "English (US) - Novelty".

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2. blacksmith_tb ◴[27 Jun 23 19:47 UTC] No.36497741[source]▶
Thanks, I found those with some digging, I see that even just adding Whisper it's a 3.8GB dl, mostly to upgrade the default voice apparently - I guess that's why it isn't all included by default I guess!