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say

SafeText to speech

say '<テキスト>'

Speaks text aloud — append '&& say done' to long jobs for an audible completion bell.

Examples

  • make build && say 'ビルド完了'Audible build notification

Syntax

say [-v voice] [-o out.aiff] <text>

Before you run it

Speech only.

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