Text-to-Speech

Since Mac OS X embraced Unix, the old fashion command line interface gets its attention again from computing fans. I learned MS-DOS in the old time. Though the graphic interface is easy to use, I would admit that for sometimes only one word could describe how the command line interface feels--"COOL."

Try this if you are interested to have your Mac speak with a command line script. Launch the Terminal application, and input the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'say "hello"'

You should be able to hear your Mac is talking "hello" to you!