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macOS: Text to Speech Command - say examples

Post Last Updated: 06 Mar 2022 12:02 GMT | User: @c2cDev | Topic: MacOS

If you want to covert text to speech on your macOS Terminal you can make use of say command,

Syntax:

say [-v voice] [-f file | string ...]

Example 1: Text to speech using string

% say "Hello therehow are you?"

Example 2: Text to speech using string and a female voice Alice

% say -v Alice "Hello, my name is Alice!"

Example 3: Text to speech using text from file and a female voice Alice

% say -v Alice -f my-speech-text.txt

bash-3.2$ echo "This message has been read from an external file" > my-speech-text.txt
bash-3.2$ say -v Alice -f my-speech-text.txt
bash-3.2$

macOS Terminal read text to speech from external file

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