Comment by Hamuko
3 years ago
You can use `say` to recreate your own Serial Experiments Lain intros.
say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"
3 years ago
You can use `say` to recreate your own Serial Experiments Lain intros.
say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"
You may have to install extra voices somehow, looking at the manpage for say, it seems like 'say -v ?' would list the voices installed, but I don't seem to have any (like Whisper), though plain old 'say "hello world"' does do a robotic voice which must be the default.
You can install additional voices in System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System voice → Manage voices (in Ventura).
"Whisper" is listed under "English (US) - Novelty".
Thanks, I found those with some digging, I see that even just adding Whisper it's a 3.8GB dl, mostly to upgrade the default voice apparently - I guess that's why it isn't all included by default I guess!
Not sure if you can install additional voices using the command line, but the way you do it in the UI is Preferences -> Accessibility -> Spoken Content, then select customize in the voice selector and finally select the voice you want to add.