The mac command say can specify the voice used with the -v flag.
say -v Alex "compile completed, put your swords down."
The available voices can be seen in System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech. How can I get this list programmatically?
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3nice! This wouldn't be callable via python by any chance?
Mark Harrison
2009-09-29 00:44:09
I'm sure you could call it through PyObjC, which is included with Mac OS X 10.5 and above (and downloadable for earlier versions).
Chuck
2009-09-29 00:48:56
you're right, I've copied the incanation below... thanks a bunch!!
Mark Harrison
2009-09-29 04:50:59
+1
A:
Shell Version, no hack too cheap!
(Don't actually use this, use the python version instead.)
ls /System/Library/Speech/Voices | sed 's/.SpeechVoice$//'
Agnes
Albert
Alex
BadNews
Bahh
Bells
Boing
...
Mark Harrison
2009-09-29 00:26:32
+1
A:
Python Version, courtesy of Barry Wark:
from AppKit import NSSpeechSynthesizer
print NSSpeechSynthesizer.availableVoices()
Mark Harrison
2009-09-29 04:47:10