You've Got Mail Mac OS
Okay, it’s fair to say that I was struggling to fill my lunch hour yesterday, and one thing that I’ve wanted to do for a number of years was trigger the awesomely-cool “You’ve got mail” voice when I get new emails on my computer. If, like me, you were never one who actually used AOL as a service provider (and why would you), then your best bet is to think of the film of the same name starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
Grows and turns yellow when new mail is received, and if we use Messenger as well, we can persuade that app to pop toast up from that same tray whenever new mail arrives. Again, I don't know whether these features are available on a Mac OS. You'd be better off asking in a Mac forum, I think.-Noel. One of the things I've always liked about Apple's Mail application is that when new messages arrive, Mail's Dock icon tells you how many. However, one limitation of this feature is that the number.
The basis of this trick is going to be achieved through Mac Mail’s ability to have a rule which triggers an AppleScript script. We’ll come back to that, first of all it’s time to play with Mac OS’s text to speech feature…
Support me and get thousands of sounds: Downloadlink: you have problems download. $ say 'Youve got mail' You should hear a manly computer voice saying “ You’ve got mail” to you hopefully. Notice that the wording is wrapped in apostrophes but there’s no apostrophe between the you and the ve of you’ve.
Give your computer a voice
Fire up terminal (it can be found in Applications > Utilities if you’re unsure) and type the following to test out the text-to-speech functionality (bear in mind that you’ll need your volume turned up!):
You should hear a manly computer voice saying “You’ve got mail” to you hopefully. Notice that the wording is wrapped in apostrophes but there’s no apostrophe between the you and the ve of you’ve. This is not grammatically correct, I know, but it still gets read correctly and it helps us to write it like that for when we get to the AppleScript portion of the lecture (and yes, it is a lecture). You can choose from a whole host of voices to use, a list of which can be shown by typing:
Then when you settle on one – I chose whisper – the finished bash command should be something along the lines of:
Writing the AppleScript script
Now it’s time to put it into a very simple script that we can then trigger from Mac Mail. To do this we’ll be using AppleScript Editor, which is found under Applications > Utilities > AppleScript Editor. Open the editor up and type the following into the top box: