Speaks the lyrics to 'Fitter Happier' from OK Computer. Requires python and Mac OS.

fitter_happier.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

'''
File: fitter_happier.py
Author: Cameron Lane
Description: Demonstration of the mac os x `say` command from within python.  
'''

import sys,os,urllib2

def main():
    """
    accesses a text file containing the lyrics to 'Fitter Happier' from OK Computer by Radiohead
    and speaks the text of the file using Mac OS X's say command.
    """

    URL = 'http://cameronlane.org/misc/fitter_happier.txt'
    try:
        f = urllib2.urlopen(URL)
        os.system('sty -v fred %s' % f.read())
    except:
        print "File not found.  It's possible it has been moved"
    print "done!"
    sys.exit(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Thanks for the info. The link changed since then. A terser way to do this would be:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucperkins/fitter-happier/master/fitter-happier.txt | say -v fred

@paulstuart Thanks! Yeah, I'm not surprised it's broken or that there's an easier way. This is pretty old, but hope it was useful in some small way. Thanks again.