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 "generated": "2026-10-24",
 "id": "callebtc-sayit--speak-text-from-terminal-scripts",
 "repo": "callebtc/sayit",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/callebtc/sayit",
 "repo_slug": "callebtc-sayit",
 "title": "Speak text from the terminal and shell scripts",
 "page_title": "How to speak text from the terminal and shell scripts with Sayit",
 "summary": "Pipe any script output into the Sayit command to hear it read aloud.",
 "who": "A developer who wants a long build or batch job to announce its result out loud.",
 "problem": "You miss when a long job finishes because you are in another window.",
 "outcome": "Command line speech you can drop into any script, with status, pause and resume.",
 "steps": [
  "Install Say It and its command line tool",
  "Test it with `sayit \"Read this aloud\"`",
  "Pipe output in with `printf 'Read standard input' | sayit`",
  "Control playback with `sayit pause`, `sayit resume` and `sayit status`"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Add callebtc/sayit to <script> so it pipes the final status line into `sayit`. Run the script once and confirm the line was spoken and `sayit status` reports idle afterwards.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "15 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "It runs only on Apple silicon Macs because it depends on MLX.",
 "category": "Personal productivity",
 "tags": [
  "Personal productivity"
 ],
 "lang": "swift",
 "requirements": [
  "Apple silicon Mac",
  "A supported MLX TTS model downloaded in the app"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": false,
 "score": 0.9,
 "evidence": [],
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