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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: 0.758s | source
1. miohtama ◴[27 Jun 23 20:26 UTC] No.36498194[source]▶
say - text-to-speech engine:

I would have expected that at the era of AI this would sound a bit better than the Commodore 64 speech synthesis from 80s.

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2. meepmorp ◴[27 Jun 23 20:58 UTC] No.36498560[source]▶
It's dependent on the voice you pick in system settings. If you choose one of the siri voices for the system voice (not in the siri settings, iirc), it sounds much more natural.