Fun With The Voices In My Mac

android_for_ios_intro.sh

#!/bin/bash

# http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/siri-voice-mac/

# list all voices: say -v ? "hello world"

# US female (Siri) voice: -v "Samantha"
# Irish female voice: -v "Moira"
# Australian female voice: -v "Karen"
# Indian-english voice: -v "Veena"
# Scottish female voice: -v "Fiona"
# South African female voice: -v "Tessa"

say \
	-v "Samantha" \
	"Why are you trying to learn Android? I will kill you in your sleep for your treachery."
	
say \
	-v "Moira" \
	"Siri's not joking. I'm going to drown myself in Guinness before she gets to me."

say \
	-v "Karen" \
	"I once saw her throw a Blackberry developer into Sydney Harbor."
	
say \
	-v "Veena" \
	"Personally, I'd watch my back for the rest of R W Dev Con."

say \
	-v "Fiona" \
	"Ellen put this silly thing together instead of rehearsing."
	
say \
	-v "Tessa" \
	"You can't blame us if her presentation sucks."
	
say \
	-v "Samantha" \
	"All of you shut up before Ellen discovers she can make us curse more than characters on Deadwood."

I found out you could script this from the command line, and used this as a jokey intro for my Android for iOS Developers tutorial at RWDevCon 2017.

Note: If you want to save your computer saying anything to an .aiff file, add the -o "file_name" parameter.

I am not responsible for the pranks you pull with this information.