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How to save text to speech as a voice recording?
To save to a file use, the -o <file name> option.
$ say “Hello World” -o helloworld.aiff
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Text To Speech - Custom Rate (not on the slider)
Just to add to the two existing answers, I'd add that you can also do the activity monitor commands in terminal, so you can skip a ton of steps. Doesn't seem like you even need to enter the code ...
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system wide shortcut for start speaking not working in Microsoft Edge
This doesn't solve the problem with your shortcut not working but why aren't you using the text-to-speech built-in feature?
It is located in System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content. ...
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Globally Disable Microphone in Big Sur?
This drove me bananas. Should be straightforward, but it isn't.
Googling returned lots of results for disabling the microphone on an application-specific basis in Big Sur, but absolutely oogatz on a ...
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The speech voice my new Mac speaks is different from my old one
In System Preferences > Accessibility, click on Speech (in the left-hand sidebar). Then open the System Voice menu and select Customize. Here, verify if the selected voices have downloaded to your ...
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How to stop speech in automator action
I have a few different solutions:
This applescript immediately kills all speech that is running on your computer:
do shell script "killall com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd"
Alternatively, you ...
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How to get back Chinese Speech after upgrading to Mojave?
There seems to be some issue with the upgrade to Mojave. I then first removed all the speeches in Chinese inside of System Preferences, and then rebooted the Mac, and then added the speeches back. ...
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Is Speech Synthesis protected by copyright or patent law? What does Mac OS License protect?
The License that is referred to is the Software License Agreement for macOS. It is not a patent or a copyright, it is a software license.
The license agreements protects the licensor in the sense ...
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How do I use AppleScript or Automator to turn Time Announce on or off at specified times?
UPDATE: This works for me using the latest version of High Sierra.
This version will "turn on" "Announce the time:" if not already enabled
property thePassword : "yourpassword"
tell application "...
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Is there a way to start speaking a word using macOS text to speech by hovering over it and pressing a shortcut?
You can use the following Keyboard Maestro macro:
Add a double click at current mouse location action.
Add a press ⌥⎋ action.
⌥⎋ the default shortcut for ‘Speak selected text’, set in System ...
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Which ios devices support offline speech recognition
It may be only those devices with the A9 processor. If so, that would be iPhone 6s, 6s+, and iPad 7th Generation.
It seems logical that the A10 (iPhone 7, 7+) would also do it, but I don't know.
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Can Apple Watch read aloud web sites or web pages?
Out of box Apple Watch has almost no web functionality. Technically it can open web views from emails or Siri, but apps can't have its own web views and those web views can show only stripped down ...
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Text To Speech - Custom Rate (not on the slider)
Thanks to this thread and others, I've cobbled together a bash.sh solution that enables you to change the value quickly via terminal.
check it out! https://github.com/insasquatchcountry/TTSpeed
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