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:
The
saycommand 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 thesaycommand itself doesn't have an option for outputting to an audio file.You can use a combination of the
saycommand and thetext2wavecommand to achieve this. Here's an example:say -o output.aiff -f file.txtThis command will use the
saycommand to convert the text infile.txtto an AIFF audio file namedoutput.aiff. To convert it to MP3, you'll need an additional tool likeffmpeg. Make sure you haveffmpeginstalled; you can install it using a package manager like Homebrew:brew install ffmpegOnce
ffmpegis installed, you can convert the AIFF file to MP3 using the following command:ffmpeg -i output.aiff -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 file.mp3This command will take the
output.aifffile 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.mp3This will convert the text in
file.txtto an MP3 file namedfile.mp3. Adjust the filenames and paths as needed for your specific use case.