Talking clock in a different language I've got my Mac speaking me the time every hour, but I'm currently trying to learn French so I thought it would be a good idea to make it speak the time in French.

However, rather than saying "Il est 11 heures." she says "It's 11 hours." (in a lovely French accent).

Is it possible to make her actually speak French?
How did you set up the system to say the time?

I set it up as follows:
System Preferences --&gt; Dictation &amp; Speech --&gt; Text to Speech --&gt; Customize --&gt; Add a French voice. It took some time to download.

And then on the command line:

$ export LANG=fr_FR
$ say `date`


This works for me.



What might work in the GUI is to set the date format to French:

System Preferences --&gt; Language &amp; Region --&gt; Advanced --&gt; Format Language - French


As you can see in the screenshots below, this changes the date and format only, not the entire language of the system.