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Have a great day,
Alex
mehg...@gmail.com



On Feb 6, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Andrew Thompson <lordpi...@me.com> wrote:

> If you post to the speech-dev list you'll likely get a more detailed reply as 
> Apple's TTS engineers hang out there. 

Thank you, I didn't know that list even existed! That will indeed be a great 
resource.
> 
> I believe it is possible to hook up the synthesizer as an Audio Unit and 
> capture the output that way. 
> 
> A more basic approach would be to use the venerable UNIX mkfifo function to 
> create a file which is really a pipe:
> 
> http://linux.die.net/man/3/mkfifo
> 
> Then you can direct the synthesizer to write down one end of it and read the 
> other end to get the data without going via the disk. 

That makes sense, and may avoid the need for a dedicated app if I can just 
write a script. Good idea, I'll have a look at this link.
> 
> But really ask on the other list. 

Most definitely!
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello again,
>> The NSSpeechSynthesizer can output speech to a sound output device or a 
>> file. However, I want to capture the output and store it as audio data, so I 
>> can string together multiple outputs and then save the whole thing to a 
>> file. I've looked, but the only link I found that might have offered this is 
>> full of deprecated functions. Is what I'm looking to do possible, or am I 
>> better off somehow re-loading all the outputted files and stitching them 
>> together after the fact? That just seems like a less graceful, more 
>> disk-intensive process than capturing the data in real-time and performing 
>> the manipulations then. Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Have a great day,
>> Alex
>> mehg...@gmail.com
>> 
>> 
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