Here's a way to use AppleScript and the 'say' command to have the computer sing happy birthday to you. Enjoy!
[crarko adds: Works as described. From the mind of Sal Soghoian. For extra credit tie it to an iCal reminder of a person's birthday, and see if you can put that person's name into the firstname and lastname variables and have it autoplay. A similar hint was also submitted by user 'Nyhthawk,' and I want to acknowledge that as well. Thanks!]
set currentUser to long user name of (get system info)
set firstName to first word of currentUser
set lastName to last word of currentUser
set noteValues to {56, 56, 58, 56, 61, 60, 50, 56, 56, 58, 56, 63, 61, 50, 56, 56, 68, 65, 61, 60, 58, 50, 66, 66, 65, 61, 63, 61} -- F
-- set noteValues to {65, 65, 67, 65, 70, 69, 60, 65, 65, 67, 65, 72, 70, 60, 65, 65, 77, 74, 70, 69, 67, 60, 75, 75, 74, 70, 72, 70} -- D
-- set noteValues to {55, 55, 57, 55, 60, 59, 50, 55, 55, 57, 55, 62, 60, 50, 55, 55, 67, 64, 60, 59, 57, 50, 65, 65, 64, 60, 62, 60} -- E
set syllables to {"hap", "p", "birth", "day", "to", "you", "[[slnc 500]]", "hap", "p", "birth", "day", "to", "you", "[[slnc 500]]", "hap", "p", "birth", "day", "dear", firstName, lastName, "[[slnc 500]]", "hap", "p", "birth", "day", "to", "you"}
repeat with i from 1 to the length of noteValues
set thisValue to item i of noteValues
set thisSyllable to item i of syllables
if length of thisSyllable is less than 3 then
set speakingRate to 220
else
set speakingRate to 100
end if
say thisSyllable pitch thisValue using "Cellos" speaking rate speakingRate modulation 0
end repeat
[crarko adds: Works as described. From the mind of Sal Soghoian. For extra credit tie it to an iCal reminder of a person's birthday, and see if you can put that person's name into the firstname and lastname variables and have it autoplay. A similar hint was also submitted by user 'Nyhthawk,' and I want to acknowledge that as well. Thanks!]
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