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Speak region or a given input
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| (defun say nil | |
| "Speak region." | |
| (interactive) | |
| (let (arg) | |
| (if mark-active | |
| (setq arg (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))) | |
| (setq arg (read-from-minibuffer "Say: "))) | |
| (save-window-excursion | |
| (async-shell-command (format "say \"%s\" &" arg))))) |
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An async emacs function that speaks the region, or a text input. This uses the system
saycommand. Has been testet on OS X.