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Can't get -o or -f options to work
Authored by: dtrevas on Nov 21, '03 12:10:07PM

If you look at "man say", you'll see the -o option to send spoken data to an aiff file and a -f option to read the contents of a text file.

In the directory /Users/myusername/Documents, I created a plan-text file called myfile.txt. Here's what happened:

say "Hello" SUCCESS
say -v Vicki "Hello" SUCCESS

but ALL of these failed with a return code of -1:

say -v Vicki -o mysound.aiff -f myfile.txt
say -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -o "mysound.aiff" -f "myfile.txt"

Does anyone see what I've done wrong or has anyone succeeded with the -o or -f options and what did it take to get there?

Any help will be appreciated.



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