You can use Siri's voice by typing text into a text-to-speech (TTS) engine that uses Siri's voice. Here are the general steps:
On macOS:
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The
say
command on macOS is used to convert text to audible speech. If you want to convert the contents of a text file to an audio file (e.g., MP3), you'll need to use additional tools since thesay
command itself doesn't have an option for outputting to an audio file.You can use a combination of the
say
command and thetext2wave
command to achieve this. Here's an example:say -o output.aiff -f file.txt
This command will use the
say
command to convert the text infile.txt
to an AIFF audio file namedoutput.aiff
. To convert it to MP3, you'll need an additional tool likeffmpeg
. Make sure you haveffmpeg
installed; you can install it using a package manager like Homebrew:brew install ffmpeg
Once
ffmpeg
is installed, you can convert the AIFF file to MP3 using the following command:ffmpeg -i output.aiff -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 file.mp3
This command will take the
output.aiff
file and convert it to an MP3 file namedfile.mp3
.So, the complete process would be:
say -o output.aiff -f file.txt ffmpeg -i output.aiff -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 file.mp3
This will convert the text in
file.txt
to an MP3 file namedfile.mp3
. Adjust the filenames and paths as needed for your specific use case.