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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 :

  1. MacRumors for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd songs
  2. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the 4th and 5th songs
  3. The commentor Jérémie for the last song

Categories: Audio, Popular
Tags: Song, Terminal

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34 Comments

Ballena

Haha. I like the mountain hall-one.

yitping

This is brilliant!!!

Stolencheese

Haha, Love it! :D

depi

Wow, what a cool one, thanks for those funny tips ;-)

Digitist

Very funny. My mac not only talks to me but sings also. Splendit

hongkiat

Creative!

kelly

haha this is pretty fun!

kagayaki

Cute!

thebug

MMMMMMwwwwaahAUHAUHuAHuAHuAHuAHUAhUHuHAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa NICE!!! Great!!!!

:)

Ojat

shoot, this is funny and really creative..... :D

Mike

video?

mark

someone should post the song from Portal, the one that you hear at the end of the game

Rory

@mark

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!

Martijn

@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

What is the name of the first song?

zach

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

What a brilliant reflection on the average Mac user. Our command prompt can make noises, I bet Windows can't make that claim!

cerw

gold!

Dan

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

good like!

Mekie

I like it. Thanks.

somefolk

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

my terminal is white not green=S

Felipe Barraza

Very Nice!! :D

Mabie

Is this just working for Mac?

Alexander G

Go to my website!!! www.tabltd.org!
By the way, nice songs

Ajan

lol!! Love this

samesungma

i love in it.

De las casas

A-mazing!

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I really like the say command on my Mac’s. Great fun letting another mac in your building say something while someone else is using it.

mosquito repellent plants

Haha. I love the mountains, a lounge. 

Mosquito repellent plants

I recorded the terminal sing the last song mentioned here. 

Black rain boots

New information is needed. Probably a neu post…

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This is brilliant! Cool application it is. I believe users are so excited to know this. It has been a while too since we last had a new one.

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