YAAQ (yet another apple question)

[bob]

Someone asked me how to set up Crafty's "speech" on a mac. I had no idea. Worked trivially under linux, but I do not see anything similar to "esdplay" or anything close for the mac. Most are running Yosemite. Any suggestions?

[sje]

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say "This is a test."

[JoshPettus]

Regarding Say:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac ... say.1.html

[stegemma]

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say "This is a test."

It is better to use single quotes, as you can see by executing the following commands:

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say "This is a Test!"
say 'This is a Test!'

The first one gives an error related to a missing event (?) and the second one works fine.

[sje]

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say "This is a test."

It is better to use single quotes, as you can see by executing the following commands:

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say "This is a Test!"
say 'This is a Test!'

The first one gives an error related to a missing event (?) and the second one works fine.

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say 'You'll see that's not always a good idea.'

[stegemma]

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say "This is a test."

It is better to use single quotes, as you can see by executing the following commands:

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say "This is a Test!"
say 'This is a Test!'

The first one gives an error related to a missing event (?) and the second one works fine.

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say 'You'll see that's not always a good idea.'

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say Yes but it works even without quotes!

[stevenaaus]

say "This is a Test!"

You are just running into a bash (the modern default unix command shell) nuance/feature.
Single quotes (') are literal, but bash will try to do variable expansion inside double quotes ("). The exclamation mark has significance.

[sje]

And in the other direction:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac ... index.html

I did some work with this long ago. The basic idea is to supply a library recognition routine with a list of strings, each string being the text version of speech to be recognized. A spoken phrase is compared to the voice synthesis data for each of the strings and the best match is returned.

[mvk]

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say 'You'll see that's not always a good idea.'

I tested this and this case works fine.