I recently upgraded my MacBook to High Sierra (from El Cap). It appears I can no longer use the say
command. When I enter a simple command
$ say -v "Alex" "Test"
[...hangs...]
$ sudo say -v "Alex" "Test"
Password:
[...hangs...]
My laptop hangs. Is this a known issue and are there known fixes? If not, does anyone know what next steps I might take in diagnosing this problem?
Best Answer
Bug?
I could tell something was wrong because the Speech section of the Accessability pane in System Preferences was stuck loading voices and the voice sample play button also did not work. I killed some speech and audio-related processes with some luck.
I was also able to reproduce the hang by using the
-o
option of the terminalsay
command.Workaround without reboot:
Try killing
speechsynthesisd
after finding it withor just kill it this way: