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Re: [microsound] Text To Speech App for Mac



i'm not one of them crazy pro-CLI fellows, but using the terminal app would be quite a bit simpler in this case:

open terminal (in Utilities folder)
type:
say -o yournamehere.aiff 'whatever i want to say here'

and you have yourself the txt->spch in an aiff file, likely saved in your User folder (but you can search for it if need be...). you can set the current voice in the system prefs.

hope this helps....

dvnt





On 7-Nov-07, at 1:16 PM, devslashnull wrote:

yes use Apples built in... but just use "text edit" the built in text editor for mac... there is a command under the Edit menu... "Speech: Start Speaking". It reads whatever is in the file.

Then use Soundflower (free on the Cycling74 website.)

Route it to whatever your recording app is.


On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:48 AM, isjtar wrote:

use apple's built-in.
go to terminal, type say whatever you want to say
you can specify which voice and also render to file.
type man say for more info.

if you have max, you can use the lspeak object or emulate the terminal with shell. unfortunately i haven't found a way to record that without a multi i/o soudcard, soundflower and jack don't work with simple terminal commands.


best

isjtar

On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Dominic Tetmyer wrote:


Anyone know of a great text to speech utility which will render the resulting audio to a specified file format, preferably freeware also? I know Text edit is an option with Audio Hijack - but I can never get Audio Hijack to record anything. I am on MAC.

Thanks,

Dominic


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