Turn text into a spoken audio file
The built-in say command reads text aloud and, with -o, saves it as an audio file; afconvert then turns that into an .m4a any phone plays. You can also pick a voice with -v.
How
Save a sentence as audio:
say -o speech.aiff "Welcome to the meeting. We start in five minutes."Or read a whole text file:
say -o speech.aiff -f notes.txtConvert it to a small M4A file:
afconvert -f m4af -d aac speech.aiff speech.m4aOr just ask Titan
Read my notes aloud into an audio file I can listen to on a walk.Do it with Titan
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