Change Say Command voice (Terminal & iAlarm) - British Voice

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Change Say Command voice (Terminal & iAlarm) - British Voice

Hello,

I have started to use iAlarm to wake me up in the morning, but it seems to use the default (Alex)voice for Universal Access, the same voice as the terminal command "say." I tried changing the voice via the VoiceOver utility but this seems to have no effect. I recently downloaded the iVox voices and wanted to have my computer wake me up using the iVox British voice and read off my itinerary, but all I get is the regular Alex voice. Does anyone have any idea how to change the say command voice for terminal?

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on May 12, 2008 11:19 PM

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Answer 1

May 13, 2008 12:03 AM in response to Karterius

Though I haven't tried to install new voices, I did just see today that Automator does include voice support that allows you to select the voice. The action seems to call the 'say' terminal command with the voice you select. This may be killing a fly with dynomite, but it may work.

hope that helps

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Answer 2

May 14, 2008 4:37 PM in response to Karterius

Do you know that you can change the default voice for Universal Access in system prefs?

Open System Prefs then the Speech Pane, then at the top switch to the "Text to Speech" side. At the top you can choose the "System Voice" which is the default voice that (almost) every command and program will use unless you tell it to use something different. iAlarm and say should use the voice you specify here, so you can change it to your iVox voice.

Hope this helps!
Ricky

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