AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Name

say

Synopsis

text-to-speech

text-to-speech

Reads text aloud, either in real time or saving the synthesized speech as a sound file. Can also be used in conjunction with speech recognition to determine what text appears below the microphone window .

Example

tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"
    set s to listen for {"yes", "no"} with prompt "Would you like me to beep?" ¬
        giving up after 10
end tell
if s is "yes" then
    say "Okay, I will beep now." displaying "Okay."
    beep
else
    say "Okay, then I won't." displaying "Okay."
end if