Hello.
Save it as a shell script and chmod u+x afterwards, then you can enter date|speak on the commandline for instance. speak “An error occured” is an example of another way to invoke it. 
[code]#!/bin/bash
© McUsr and put into Public Domain. You may not post this script elsewhere,
nor put into a repository but please refer to this link: GPL 1.0
Release 2.0.3
declare prgname version Usage args theVoice theFile tempfoo TMPFILE curdir the_res
prgname=basename $0
PATH=“/bin:/usr/bin”
version=“0”
Usage=“Usage : $prgname [-h] [-l] || [-V voice] || [-f file] || [ "words to speak" ]”
phelp()
{
echo "
$Usage
Speaks text either given from the commandline, from a file with the -f option, or from standard input.
-h shows this help
-l lists the voices
-V chooses the voice you want to use.
-f specifies a file to speak
Example:
$prgname -V Bruce "Hello World"
$prgname -V Bruce -f /Users/You/your/file/to/speak
" 1>&2
}
theVoice=Bruce
cmd=Just_speak
args=getopt hlV:f: $* 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo $Usage
exit 1
fi
arg=“__”
set – $args
for i
do
case “$i”
in
-h)
phelp ;
exit 0 ;;
-l)
cmd=list_voices ;
shift ;;
# output the list of the voice names.
-V) shift;
theVoice=“$1” ;
cmd=set_voice ;
shift ;;
# set the voice This one is independent of file.
-f) shift ;
theFile=“$1” ;
export cmd=file_arg ;
shift ;;
# file to speak
esac
done
if [ “$cmd” = “list_voices” ] ; then
cat <<EOF
Agnes
Albert
Alex
BadNews
Bahh
Bells
Boing
Bruce
Bubbles
Cellos
Deranged
Fred
GoodNews
Hysterical
Junior
Kathy
Organ
Princess
Ralph
Trinoids
Vicki
Victoria
Whisper
Zarvox
EOF
exit 0
elif [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
shift
set – “$theVoice”
else
shift
set – “$theVoice” “$@”
fi
if there are no commandline arguments left, and no file argument, then we’ll
use the standard input. We must also cater for the case with voice.
if [ $# -gt 1 ] ; then
osascript <<END! - “$*”
on run {T}
set Applescript’s text item delimiters to “”
set T to T as text
set theVoiceList to {“Agnes”,“Albert”,“Alex”,“BadNews”,“Bahh”,“Bells”,“Boing”,“Bruce”,“Bubbles”,“Cellos”,“Deranged”,“Fred”,“GoodNews”,“Hysterical”,“Junior”,“Kathy”,“Organ”,“Princess”,“Ralph”,“Trinoids”,“Vicki”,“Victoria”,“Whisper”,“Zarvox”}
set theVoice to word 1 of T
set theSpeach to word 2 thru -1 of T as text
if theVoice is in theVoiceList then
say theSpeach using ( theVoice as list )
else
say theSpeach using {“Victoria”}
end if
end run
END!
elif [ “$cmd” = “file_arg” ] ; then
cat “$theFile” >|/tmp/saying2
sed ‘s:[][^$.*/#]:\&:g’ “$theFile” >|/tmp/saying2
osascript <<END! - “$@”
on run { T }
set Applescript’s text item delimiters to “”
set T to T as text
set theVoiceList to {“Agnes”,“Albert”,“Alex”,“BadNews”,“Bahh”,“Bells”,“Boing”,“Bruce”,“Bubbles”,“Cellos”,“Deranged”,“Fred”,“GoodNews”,“Hysterical”,“Junior”,“Kathy”,“Organ”,“Princess”,“Ralph”,“Trinoids”,“Vicki”,“Victoria”,“Whisper”,“Zarvox”}
set theVoice to word 1 of T
set theSpeach to do shell script “cat /tmp/saying2”
if theVoice is in theVoiceList then
say theSpeach using ( theVoice as list )
else
say T using {“Victoria”}
end if
end run
END!
else
rm /tmp/saying 2>/dev/null || echo >/dev/null
while read a ; do
echo “$a” >>/tmp/saying
done
sed ‘s:[][^$.*/#]:\&:g’ /tmp/saying >|/tmp/saying2
osascript <<END! - “$@”
on run { T }
set Applescript’s text item delimiters to “”
set T to T as text
set theVoiceList to {“Agnes”,“Albert”,“Alex”,“BadNews”,“Bahh”,“Bells”,“Boing”,“Bruce”,“Bubbles”,“Cellos”,“Deranged”,“Fred”,“GoodNews”,“Hysterical”,“Junior”,“Kathy”,“Organ”,“Princess”,“Ralph”,“Trinoids”,“Vicki”,“Victoria”,“Whisper”,“Zarvox”}
set theVoice to word 1 of T
set theSpeach to do shell script “cat /tmp/saying2”
if theVoice is in theVoiceList then
say theSpeach using ( theVoice as list )
else
say T using {“Victoria”}
end if
end run
END!
fi[/code]
