OS X Command Line Utilities

Re:OS X Command Line Utilities by pavel_lishin on Sunday August 30, 2015 @02:18PM (#10144075)

Two-part response.

1, the pedantic: technically none of them know how to speak English, or any other language - there's just a rule set for making phonemes based on characters out of waveforms.

2. Ignoring the pedantic response, I still don't think that's true - if that were the case, then Milena wouldn't be able to speak an English sentence!

    say -v Milena "Hello, I am Milena"

If they only speak their own language, then Milena should be saying "Прописная буква Х, строчная буква и", etc.

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Re:OS X Command Line Utilities by microtherion on Sunday August 30, 2015 @04:01PM (#10144320)

It's even more complicated than that: Some voices DO speak multiple languages, e.g. the German voice "Anna" (downloaded from System Preferences) speaks excellent German, English, Spanish, Italian, and French:

   say -v Anna 'über allen Wipfeln ist Ruh'
   say -v Anna '[[lang fr_FR]] que restet-il de nos amours'
   say -v Anna '[[lang it_IT]] chi nasce asino non muore cavallo'
   say -v Anna '[[lang es_SP]] nosotros tenemos mas influencia  con sus hijos que su tiene'
   say -v Anna '[[lang en_UK]] are we having fun yet?'

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Re:OS X Command Line Utilities by carlob on Monday August 31, 2015 @02:12AM (#10145665)

No, it doesn't speak Italian, for one 'chi' is pronounced like 'she' and not like 'ki'.

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Re:OS X Command Line Utilities by pavel_lishin on Sunday August 30, 2015 @06:11PM (#10144638)

Hm, do you know how many speak languages that aren't "ascii"?

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