Dictate and speak/read text from Terminal

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I have an idea in mind for a Terminal command I run often. I haven't found answers to these on my own, and they all have to do with voice/dictation:

Dictation in Terminal

Can I dictate to the Terminal? I've tried the standard Fn–Fn, but it only plays the sound effect that it makes when you've cancelled it. No microphone bubble appears either. Is it not possible to do this? I notice that in the Edit menu of Terminal, I find that Start Dictation is not greyed out; it's still an option.

Terminal > Edit > Start Dictation (fn fn)

I am positive that Dictation is setup correctly, it works great system-wide.

Reading output from Terminal

Can I get the output of one Terminal window and have it read to me by the system (via AppleScript)? I am essentially trying to reproduce this behavior with continuous output (I want every line that follows the first to be read):

Ctrl-click, Speech, Start Speaking

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say. You can download different voices in Mountain Lion (not sure about older versions) and can be looked up from System Preferences

Usage: say [-v voice] [-o out] [-f in | message]

You can use command | say to stream output of the command once its completed.

The famous Vicki voice from Portal.

say -v Vicki Do not adjust your screen. You will be assimilated. The process is quick and painless, stand by

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Is it possible to ask Siri to read dictated text

Are you just using the dictation feature (the microphone button on the keyboard), or sending email or texts/iMessages through Siri (holding down the home button, telling Siri to send a message…)?

If you're using the Siri function, when it prompts you if you want to send it, you can ask Siri to "read it to me" or "review it" and it will be read back to you.

If you're just using the dictation (which technically isn't Siri), your best option is to use VoiceOver, as Andrew Ferrier suggests.

Run AppleScript for Specific Monitor

This script in an Automator Dictation command seems to work.

Not the fullscreen will not work properly if run in Automator or Script editor. It picks up the previous window 1.

But any time I got the Dictation command to work. ( always find a bit of a pain to get them to understand me) It got the right window 100%.

This script uses system profiler to get the monitors. and a bit of simple jiggery to use the width of monitor 1 to determine where bounds are of monitor two.

I did it this way because you may choose not to use fullscreen

I have also tried to make the script accessible to people with one monitor

set theScreens to paragraphs of (do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType -detailLevel |grep \"Resolution:\" | awk -F\"Resolution: \" '{print $2}'")
set theMonitor to ""

set the counter to count of theScreens --- set to 1 if you want to test it on monitor 1
if (counter) > 1 then
    -- we will do things for monitor 2
    set thisDisplayWidthHeightMonitor_2 to {(word 1 of item 1 of theScreens) + 2, 0, ((word 1 of item 1 of theScreens) + (word 1 of item 2 of theScreens)), word 3 of item 2 of theScreens}
    set theMonitor to thisDisplayWidthHeightMonitor_2
else
    -- we will do things for monitor 1
    set thisDisplayWidthHeightMonitor_1 to {0, 0, (word 1 of item 1 of theScreens), (word 3 of item 1 of theScreens)}
    set theMonitor to thisDisplayWidthHeightMonitor_1
end if

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    make new document with properties {URL:"http://netflix.com", index:1}

    set bounds of window 1 to theMonitor

end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell application process "Safari"
        set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true
    end tell
end tell

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