MacOS – Change text to speech voice mac

When logged into the account with Parental Controls, go to System Preferences > Speech > Text to speech tab > Uncheck the options alerts and application attention.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2763273

Here you go:

# read.sh <file-to-read> [name-of-voice]
#!/bin/bash

textToRead=$(cat $1)

IFS=$'\n'
while read rep; do
        IFS=" "
        repArray=( $rep )
        textToRead=${textToRead//${repArray[0]}//${repArray[1]}}
done < replacements.txt

if [ -z $2 ]; then
        echo "$textToRead" | say
else
        echo "$textToRead" | say -v $2
fi

This shell script read replacements from replacements.txt and uses the say command to read the files content after replacing what's defined in replacements.txt.

replacements.txt: One line per replacement, <search> <replace>.

Sorry for the ugly code... I hate bash scripting.