audiosay

Overview ¶

Command audiosay speaks text using Apple's speech synthesis APIs.

By default it uses AVSpeechSynthesizer (public API). With -siri it uses the private TextToSpeech framework to speak with a Siri voice.

Usage:

audiosay [-voice lang] [-rate n] [-list] [text | -]
audiosay -siri [text | -]
audiosay -private [-voice id] [-list] [text | -]
audiosay -list-all [-siri]
audiosay -preview <voice-id>

Examples:

audiosay "Hello, world!"
echo "pipe me" | audiosay -
audiosay -voice en-AU "Good day, mate"
audiosay -list
audiosay -rate 0.6 "Speaking slowly"
audiosay -siri "Hello from Siri"
audiosay -private -list