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		Hamuko on Aug 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of u... Serial Experiments Lain (1998) used PlainTalk for its title cards. You can still recreate the title card voices in macOS. `say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"`

dividedbyzero on Aug 8, 2020 [–]

That doesn't seem to work on the latest Catalina ("Voice Whisper not found.") – do I need to install them separately?

Hamuko on Aug 9, 2020 | [–]

Yeah. You can customise the available voices in Preferences > Accessibility > Speech

Whisper can definitely be installed on Catalina still. It's a 34 MB download.

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