How to make mac speak when logging on or waking up

hi, i was wondring how you make your mac speak to you and say welcome or hello everytime you log on or wake it up.
if anybody knows, plesae help.
Thanks!

A login greeting is simple. Make a small application with Automator:
1. Choose Application from the Automator template.
2. Add one action: Run Shell Script. In this action, replace cat with say welcome.
Save the application and store it somewhere. (The Applications folder is a good choice.)
Open System Preferences, choose Accounts, then select the account you want to target. In that account, select Login Items. Drag your new application to the login item window to create a link to the file. Close System Preferences.
Each time that you login to that account, the application will run and the Mac will say "Welcome." Once it becomes annoying, return to the Login Items to remove the link to your application.
A spoken wake-up message is trickier, but it can be done. See these discussions: https://discussions.apple.com/message/3240458 and http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060908113605812, then get a copy of SleepWatcher, http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/.

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