> say Hello World # Will speak from

> say -f /etc/hosts # Will read out your /etc/hosts file

Hmm….I wonder how my code sounds.  I’ve always been a big fan of the development concept that your code shouldn’t need a ton of comments if it reads well.  But how would it sound…

Turns out some Java code sounded pretty good.  I could definitely visualize and understand the class as it was being read to me.  But some Ruby code I was working on sounded terrible; I chalk it up to the lack of verbosity in the language. 

Another interesting use of the command for me is for README files.  I usually lack the patience to read a whole README file, but I have good retention of those things that I hear.  So when I see a README file, I can now just have say read it aloud to me and I get the content as I dive into whatever I am doing!