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An AppleScript to switch the Text-To-Speech voice from Daniel to Ting-Ting and vice versa. I use it because I often have to switch between English and Chinese TTS. I found this script online and modified it.
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OSX Switch TTS Language
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "TTS" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
tell pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
click
delay 0.5 -- without this the value was sometimes "Loading Voices…"
if value is "Daniel" then
click menu item "Ting-Ting" of menu 1
else
click menu item "Daniel" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
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