Just a quick tip, with a your Mac built-in voice, you can make your Mac sings several nice songs with Terminal.
say -v Good oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Is it nice? Do you want more? Don't worry, there is more songs ahead for you to enjoy, especially during your most boring time. You know what I mean.
say -v Bad oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Maybe you feel the lyric is a little bit boring? All o's like that. Let's use a little bit creativity.
osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo" using "Cellos"'
osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dee dum dum dum dum dee Dum dum dee dum dum dum dum dee dum dee dum dum dum de dum dum dum dee dum dee dum dum dee dummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" using "Pipe Organ"'
osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dee dum dum dum dum dee Dum dum dee dum dum dum dum dee dum dee dum dum dum de dum dum dum dee dum dee dum dum dee dummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" using "Hysterical"'
I don't like this one above. It's just because it's too long.
osascript -e 'say "oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to work to work its because i hate my job hate my job hate my job its because i hate my job more than anything else No its because youve no life youve no life youve no life and you better go get one after forwarding this crap" using "cellos"'
You can Triple-Click on the displayed command line to highlight the whole line.
Special thanks to :
- MacRumors for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd songs
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the 4th and 5th songs
- The commentor Jérémie for the last song
24 COMMENTS (RSS)
Ballena
June 25th, 2008 Time: 04:07 AM
Haha. I like the mountain hall-one.
yitping
June 25th, 2008 Time: 07:26 AM
This is brilliant!!!
Stolencheese
June 25th, 2008 Time: 07:52 AM
Haha, Love it! :D
depi
June 25th, 2008 Time: 02:44 PM
Wow, what a cool one, thanks for those funny tips ;-)
Digitist
June 25th, 2008 Time: 11:27 PM
Very funny. My mac not only talks to me but sings also. Splendit
hongkiat
June 27th, 2008 Time: 12:28 AM
Creative!
kelly
June 27th, 2008 Time: 12:28 PM
haha this is pretty fun!
kagayaki
June 28th, 2008 Time: 03:32 AM
Cute!
thebug
June 28th, 2008 Time: 05:31 PM
MMMMMMwwwwaahAUHAUHuAHuAHuAHuAHUAhUHuHAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa NICE!!! Great!!!! :)
Ojat
June 28th, 2008 Time: 10:10 PM
shoot, this is funny and really creative..... :D
Mike
June 28th, 2008 Time: 11:24 PM
video?
mark
June 28th, 2008 Time: 11:41 PM
someone should post the song from Portal, the one that you hear at the end of the game
Rory
June 29th, 2008 Time: 04:50 AM
@mark That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Martijn
June 29th, 2008 Time: 04:51 AM
@Mike, and others... I recorded the terminal sing the last song mentioned here. Uploaded it on Vimeo, so everyone that can't just do it themselves can check it out here: http://www.vimeo.com/1248653 .
jude
June 29th, 2008 Time: 05:33 AM
What is the name of the first song?
zach
June 29th, 2008 Time: 11:27 AM
The first song is Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1; it's used in the U.S. during graduation ceremonies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomp_and_circumstance
Alex
June 29th, 2008 Time: 05:31 PM
What a brilliant reflection on the average Mac user. Our command prompt can make noises, I bet Windows can't make that claim!
cerw
June 30th, 2008 Time: 08:55 PM
gold!
Dan
July 2nd, 2008 Time: 04:50 AM
I just want a rick-roll so when I ssh into a box I can play it on someones computer (It works remote too, try it).
Noja
July 3rd, 2008 Time: 05:44 PM
good like!
Mekie
July 16th, 2008 Time: 03:52 PM
I like it. Thanks.
somefolk
July 27th, 2008 Time: 07:20 AM
the best think is, that you can define what ever you want as far lyrics are concerned, e.q #osascript -e 'say "this is crap, totally crap, steve jobs is on LSD" using "hysterical"'
Kalle Wanhainen
August 2nd, 2008 Time: 09:20 PM
my terminal is white not green=S
Felipe Barraza
September 21st, 2008 Time: 01:57 AM
Very Nice!! :D
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