Shane at gnufoo.org cleverly patched the cat utility to bind it with the Mac OS X speech synthesizer. :)
I just compiled a universal binary. It’s probably not a good idea to replace the one in /bin/, so put it in ~/bin and change your path accordingly, or name it something different like cat_talk.
Here is an example of cool stuff you can do with it to amuse your friends:
alias say_uptime “uptime | cut -d’ ’ -f3-7 | cat -a”
(bash users need an equals sign after say_uptime)
(I forget where I got this from originally, but I seem to remember the speech synthesizer behaving differently a few years back… like it said hours and minutes. I also used to be able to type gibberish and it made cool sounds instead of naming the letters)
Download the zip file containing the univeral binary and man page here.
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