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Retro Email Notification in OS X Terminal
# Use the terminal to create your message
say -v Samantha -o mail.m4a "you've got mail"
# or...
say -v Samantha -o incoming.m4a "incoming message"
# convert the m4a file to wav for use in Thunderbird
afconvert -d UI8 -f 'WAVE' mail.m4a
afconvert -d UI8 -f 'WAVE' incoming.m4a
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