Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too)
MacOS – “say” in different language
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Best Answer
You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices:
On my system the output looks like this with the voice name followed by the language abbreviation (I removed the comments):
This is an example on how to use say with a german voice, as suggested by scottishwildcat in the comments:
In case you want to hear the example list, you can copy this for loop into your terminal, which will result in all installed voices speaking a text example: