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Commands tagged say

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Terminal - Commands tagged say - 8 results
curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1&screen_name=barackobama" | egrep -w "<text>(.*)</text>" | sed -E "s/<\/?text>//g" | say
2012-02-27 18:46:33
User: beerdeaap
Functions: egrep sed
Tags: twitter osx say
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Speaks latest tweet by Obama (os x)

speaks out last twitter update using 'say'

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function say { mplayer -really-quiet "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; }
2011-12-16 20:56:40
User: tikal808
Tags: translate say text to speech
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Have Google Translate speak to you using your local speakers

Put the string above in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, then source the file. Make sure your sound output is working, you have mplayer installed, then type in a word or sentence similar to below:

say "why won't anyone talk to me?"

It's easy to get the language to be different by changing the "en" in the string to be "de" or some other language that Google Translate supports. Have multiple "say" functions, like "say-en" "say-de", etc.

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txt="";for i in {1..20};do txt=$txt"$i. ";done;say $txt" Ready or not, here I come"
2011-12-11 05:51:22
User: antic
Tags: osx say hide seek parenting counting
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OSX: Use Say Command to Help You Play Hide-and-Seek

Hide-and-Seek is one of the greatest games in the parent's arsenal. Your kid runs off and hides for several minutes, while waiting for you to find him/her. This gives you time to catch a breath and check your email without feeling like a loser. If you'd also like to take advantage of the counting time--claiming that thinking space as your own--use this command on your OSX terminal to maximize downtime. Also, if your kid is like mine, you can get away with "for i in {1..100};" :)

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tail -f LOGFILE | awk '{system("say \"" $0 "\"");}'
2011-09-16 06:20:06
User: tamouse
Functions: awk tail
Tags: awk tail say
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speak a chat log file while it's running

like #9295, but awkish instead of perlish

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tail -f LOGFILE | perl -ne '`say "$_"`;'
2011-09-16 05:33:22
User: tamouse
Functions: perl tail
Tags: perl tail say
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speak a chat log file while it's running

say only processes a complete file, at eof, so following a file isn't possible. Quick and dirty perl oneliner to feed each line from the tail -f to say. Yes, expensive to lauch a new process each line.

This little ditty was prompted by a discussion on how horrible it is to use VoiceOver on ncurses programs such as irssi.

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say() { local IFS=+;mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$*"; }
2011-09-08 13:02:46
User: RanyAlbeg
Tags: mplayer google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage: say hello world how are you today

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say() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$1"; }
2011-09-08 03:34:24
User: daa
Tags: mplayer google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples:

say hello

say "hello world"

say hello+world

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say() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; gnome-terminal -x bash -c "totem output.mp3"; sleep 4; totem --quit;}
2011-09-07 19:48:53
User: totti
Functions: bash sleep wget
Tags: google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

No need to install additional packages

eg:

say hello

For multiword

say how+are+you

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