afplay — Command-line audio player. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/afplay.1.html>

Play a sound file (waits until playback ends)

afplay {{path/to/file}}

Play a sound file at 2x speed (playback rate)

afplay --rate {{2}} {{path/to/file}}

Play a sound file at half speed

afplay --rate {{0.5}} {{path/to/file}}

Play the first `n` seconds of a sound file

afplay --time {{n}} {{path/to/file}}