Mac offers a variety of voices through S ystem Preferences. but I'll save that for another blog entry.Language voices for Mac can be installed through the Mac OS X operating system. (What I'm actually getting around to is starting off with initial text like this, and then launching iTunes at whatever time I specify in the morning. You should hear each of the phrases above spoken by your computer. Copy and paste the text above into your Script Editor, then press the Run button. If you want to run this on your Mac, just go to your Applications folder, open the AppleScript folder, then start the Script Editor. Say 'It's time to wake up, it's time to wake up!' using 'cellos' Say 'You asked us to wake you up at this time.' using 'Victoria' Say 'Wake up sleepy head' using 'Trinoids'

Say (time string of (current date)) using 'Vicky'

Say 'Al, it's time to rise and shine.' using 'Fred' Here's what the first part of my AppleScript program looks like: Mac text to speech AppleScript exampleĪs part of my AppleScript alarm clock programming effort, I'm starting my 'wake up' effort with some computer voices. You can keep changing the System Voice and clicking the Play button to here samples of what each voice sounds like. Now choose a value for the System Voice, and then press the Play button. You can experiment with these voices on your Mac OS X system by choosing System Preferences, Speech, then clicking the 'Text to Speech' tab. # all these voices are available on Mac OS X 10.5 If you ever want to use this text-to-speech functionality, here's a list of the voices built into the system: Mac OS X text to speech using AppleScriptĪs I started digging into the Mac text to speech capability I learned that there are a number of voices built into Mac OS/X, which is very cool. Okay, really, what I’m doing is writing an AppleScript iTunes alarm clock program to wake me up in the morning, and in the process I started digging into this Mac text to speech stuff, using AppleScript. I’m goofing around currently, using the very cool Mac text to speech capability. MacOS text/speech FAQ: What do you know about Mac OS X text to speech voice capabilities, including using AppleScript to convert text to speech?

Mac text to speech voices