


This could be for the purpose of storytelling and narration, advertisement and so on. We have always had one reason or the other to hire voiceover artistes. As such, daily improvements are ensured to build upon the existing technology - the computer system. The brain of man has a role to play in this awe as these inventions are not without man's input. say -v Alex -o "audiofile.aiff" -f "textfile.rtf" to read a textfile in Alex's voice direct to an audiofile.Technology has always been in the business of amazing man with its extraordinary abilities. NOTE***: If you want to combine all the options together you could do something like this. Replace "audiofile.aiff" with the audio filename you would like created. You can use the full file path to read a text file from a different location.įinally to have your Mac read straight into an audio file type say -v Alex -o "audiofile.aiff" "read this" and press Enter. Replace textfile.rtf with the filename of a plain text file you have placed on your desktop. To have your Mac read from a text file type say -v Alex -f "textfile.rtf" and press Enter. You can replace Kathy with any of the Mac voices (ie Alex, Bruce, Fred, Kathy, Vicki, Victoria). To have your Mac read in a different voice type say -v Kathy "read this" then press Enter. You can replace the text in quotes with your own.

To have your Mac read a string aloud type say "read this" then press Enter.
