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Fun with Mac OS X Terminal
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Believe it or nor the Terminal can be fun.
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The say command.
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Open the Terminal
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Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal
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A few simple navigating tips
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You will start off in your home folder. Type 'ls' to see a list of the folders (directories) contents
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ls -l will list in a long format. File sizes, permissions, etc.
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To change directories use 'cd'
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dot dot (..) will take you up one folder level
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to get back home you can always just type 'cd' or cd 'tilde' (little squiggly accent below the 'esc' key).
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type cd + space and drag in a folder from the Finder to have it's path populated. Enter to navigate in the Terminal to that folder
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Fun with 'say'
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Be careful and type exact and double check. Look it up if your in doubt. Google is your friend.
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Let's go to the Desktop and play with say
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type cd to get back to your home and then cd Desktop and hit enter.
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type say Hello and hit enter (make sure your volume is up).
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You can type say and any text afterwards and your Mac will speak it.
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You can change the voice
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Alex is the default in Snow Leopard, but there are others.
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Female Voices
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Agnes, Kathy, Princess, Vicki, Victoria
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Male Voices
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Alex, Bruce, Fred, Junior, Ralph
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Novelty Voices
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Albert, "Bad News", Bahh, Bells, Boing, Bubbles, Cellos, Deranged, "Good News", Hysterical, "Pipe Organ", Trinoids, Whisper, Zarvox
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There are parameters you can add to the command.
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-v allows you to specify a voice
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'say -v Victoria Hello'
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Read from a file
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-f then specify the path to a text file.
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Needs to be a text file in UTF-8 encoding. Default for Text Edit, so paste in text and save.
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Can also output to an AIFF file
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-o filename (path)
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Default is AIFF, but you can also do an AAC (.m4a).
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Lots of other commands
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Use the 'man say' command to view the documentation
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Spacebar (or Control+F) to move forward. Control+B to go Backward.
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'q' to quit.
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To stop the currently speaking item or if you get into trouble Command+C or Quit the terminal app.
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Closing
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Priority to your emails.
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Hotline: 281-622-4269
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ideas for topics, subjects you'd like covered, etc.
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