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Does anyone know the exact command I need to save text-to-speech on Leopard. I know the basic say command but how do you save an aiff of the text to a specific location? Many thanks Hayz

you can specify the voice with -v argument, the voice name is the same as the OSX name for the voices.



cd ~/Desktop

say -v Vicki -o vicki.aiff stuff to say

you'll have the file on your desktop

Hi Doc, thanks for the reply. I did as you said but it does't work and comes up with an error. Can you type exactly what should be typed ilcuding an speech marks please?

What is the error?

I copy/pasted those two lines from this message into the terminal.
(not at the same time)

I now have a file named "vicki.aiff" on my desktop which, when opened in quick time says "stuff to say"

I get syntax error "An unknown token can't go after this identifier". I'm tying both lines out in Apple script and then clicking RUN...maybe I'm doing it wrong?

Open up your Utilities Folder, and open up the Terminal.app application.

simply type in the two lines at the prompt and hit enter after each.

doc holiday wrote:Open up your Utilities Folder, and open up the Terminal.app application.

simply type in the two lines at the prompt and hit enter after each.

I type in the first line and press enter but it says "no such file or directory"
I'm on a Macbook Pro does this make a difference, I was originally opening the Applescript window to type stuff to say...but now I'm trying to type it in the Terminal.app as you advsied and getting this error now...

Hayz

theres a free cool little GUI for doing this you can download.
Google "cakehole"
I have used that on tracks...

I dont believe this...cakehole works great (thanks bleeps) but doesnt include the Leopard voice of Alex, which is the voice I wanted to use..arggghhh..never simple..can anyone help....the commands are not working in terminal...

You need to type things exactly. Cut-n-paste this in a new terminal, then cut-n-paste the whole output back in here, and I mean everything in that terminal.
and I might be able to figure out what went wrong.

By default OSX uses a non-case sensitive filesystem, so
should both give the same result.

Unless you've done something really weird and non-standard to your install?

you could try just opening terminal and doing the say line
Then in finder the file should appear in your home directory, making any non-standard install irrelevant and hoping that your permissions aren't screwed.

Damn. All this time I was Audiohijacking the stream from Textedit. This is a lot easier.
Thanks Mr. Holiday!

I have a new Macbook Pro, which came with Leopard and everything works great, so I doubt there is anything wrong with the install....
I'll try it out and report back soon.

ok huge apologies because It worked, I thought I was copying it exactly but I copied and pasted it rather than typed it, as I should have done earlier and it worked. Not quite sure what I got wrong as I even copied the case etc but most importantly it worked Thanks Doc!

bragi0 wrote: By default OSX uses a non-case sensitive filesystem, so

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cd ~/Desktop
cd ~/desktop

it is case sensitive actually, D.

the_planet wrote:Damn. All this time I was Audiohijacking the stream from Textedit. This is a lot easier.
Thanks Mr. Holiday!

You can use all the voices also

Hayz wrote:ok huge apologies because It worked, I thought I was copying it exactly but I copied and pasted it rather than typed it, as I should have done earlier and it worked. Not quite sure what I got wrong as I even copied the case etc but most importantly it worked Thanks Doc!

you were doing something wrong, that works on all os x macs. maybe adding a space or something? i'm defiantly on an intel with 10.5.3

I'm glad you got it. save that someplace for future reference.

it just works!