Mac Terminal Sing Songs & speaks german

I must say the speech sythesis of the Amiga ↗ was great. Think of it, this was already available in 1985! And needed maybe 50K disk space! In comparison to this the Mac doesn't make very big advantages in at least 23 years. A very big advantage way that the Amiga was also able to speak Phonem codes so that you can define very exactly the output of every letter. Female, male, Robot type speech, speed and pitch modifications were also possible.

A major breakthough was the translator.library and translator.device V43 (these both files control the speech synthesis). You can add various profiles, 'languages', which always could sound different. It's also possible to define single words. If you want to speak 'Computer' in a German profile it sounds stupid, but you can define the word that it's spoken like an English word. Even the a detection of numbers was posssible. In German the number 143 would be spoken (translated) hundred-three-and-fourty (100-3 & 40), in English hundred-forty-three (100-40-3). It's possible to detect this with tanslator.libary V43 and so it could generate a correct translation.

Another adavntage of the Amiga was always the perfect integration in the Shell. So you can mount a 'Speak-handler' and get a device called SPEAK: Now you only have to type 'copy document.txt to SPEAK:' and the computer speaks the whole file. A 'say' command could be replaced using 'echo >SPEAK: "Hallo world" ' this way.

Try this:

osascript -e 'say "main nahme eest meeshael uwnd main nikknahme eest nahkwahda"'

I already did this on the Amiga years ago, it's till fun. This means: 'My name is Michael and my nickname is Naquaada" Does this also work in other languages? Another one:

osascript -e 'say "Ish howeh owf dee fliegheh dee owf meihnem imac seetsd"'

Everyone who understands German can translate it and tell an answer what happens after this

yeah used to spend hours making that miggy swear its ass of lol

Heh thats great!

Reminds me of when I used to change the speech alerts on machines at work to insult the users when they made the slightest error.

Never gets boring...

It is possible to create rather complex translations. This is the first verse of the national hymn of the GDR, the German Demotratic Republic which was reunited with West Germany in 1989.

osascript -e 'say "owferstahndhen ows rawheehnen ownt dehr tsookoonft tsookehwahnt"'
osascript -e 'say "laws owns deer tsum goothen deenen doitshlawnd, eynik fowterlant"'
osascript -e 'say "awlteh nowt keelt ehs tsuh zweengken, oond weer zweengken see fehrawint"'
osascript -e 'say "dehn ehs moos oons doth gehlinghehn, daws dee sawnne shoen wee nee uwber doitshlawnd shawint"'

But the speed is wrong and there's no pronouncing at all.

LOL...This is just awesome. Mac OS never seizes to amaze me.