MacOS – How to save text to speech as a voice recording

bashmacosspeechtext to speechzsh

say "Hello World"

is pretty neato, but it requires the terminal to stay open. Is there a nice way to save the recording from what a "say" would output as a file?

To save to a file use, the -o <file name> option.

$ say “Hello World” -o helloworld.aiff

Simple Automator Application :

cd ~/Desktop/Test
say -o "$@.m4a" $@

I have used that way for creating an HTML signature in mail:

Create a new signature with a preferred text
Full close mail app
Go to: Library ▸ Mail ▸ V2 ▸ MailData
Open all files with .mailsignature extension until you find the text that you have writed in the first passage
Copy that file in to your desktop
Unlock it
Put your HTML code
Save and lock again that file
in Library ▸ Mail ▸ V2 ▸ MailData delete the old file .mailsignature
Copy your new .mailsingaturefile with your HTML code

If you don't do that passage mail will replace all .mailsingature files that is no locked or not correspond whit his signature name code.