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by garblegarble 3062 days ago
I was impressed to discover that on macOS, asking it to speak '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' results in it saying "shrug". The exact form from the article without the backslash for the left arm, though, results in it saying "comma" for some (very) strange reason. For example:

  say '¯_(ツ)_/¯'
  say '¯\_(ツ)_/¯'
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steve_adams_86 3062 days ago
Is this a joke? I just ran it and got something like "macron colo-con letter to underscore macron" And that's... The best I can interpret, it's very muddled.

edit: Ah, I see your response to someone else. I'm going to try Allison.

edit: Ha! It is Allison! "Shrug". What a time to be alive!

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virgilp 3062 days ago
Nope - neither of them say "shrug" on my laptop. High Sierra/ 10.13.2

[edit] And it "says" them exactly the same, regardless of backslash: "macron, (unintelligible)letter two underscore slash, macron".

What is says is actually this: ¯ツ_/¯

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garblegarble 3062 days ago
Strange, I'm on 10.13.3... have you tried running the say commands at the command-line? My speech settings are set to "Allison", so perhaps it's a feature of the advanced voices?
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virgilp 3062 days ago
> have you tried running the say commands at the command-line

I don't know how else to run it :)

But you guessed it. I have 4 voices, Samantha/Victoria/Alex/Fred. I was using Alex. Samantha behaves as you say, all others behave as I say. (Strangely enough, now it says "Samantha (downloading)", so maybe after download it will be 'fixed'?)

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