Tracy, Just in case you did not find the say command instructions from the Standard Editions dictionary, here they are.
und to play say v : Speak the given text say text : the text to speak, which can include intonation characters [displaying text] : the text to display in the feedback window (if different). Ignored unless Speech Recognition is on. [using text] : the voice to speak with. (Default is the system voice.) [speaking rate number] : the rate of speech in words per minute. Average human speech occurs at a rate of 180 to 220 words per minute. (Default depends on the voice used. If “using” is not given, the system speaking rate is the default.) [pitch number] : the base pitch frequency, a real number from 0 to 127. Values correspond to MIDI note values, where 60 is equal to middle C. Typical pitches range from around 30 to 40 for a low-pitched male voice to perhaps 55 to 65 for a high-pitched child’s voice. [modulation number] : the pitch modulation, a real number from 0 to 127. A value of 0 corresponds to a monotone in which all speech is at the base speech pitch. Given a pitch value of 46, a modulation of 2 means the widest range of pitches would be 44 to 48. [volume number] : the volume, a real number from 0 to 1 (default is the system volume). [stopping current speech boolean] : stop any current speech before starting (default is false). When false, “say” waits for previous speech commands to complete before beginning to speak. [waiting until completion boolean] : wait for speech to complete before returning (default is true). [saving to any] : the alias, file reference or path string of an AIFF file (existing or not) to contain the sound output. When “saving to” or voice-modifying parameters other than “using” are given, text is not displayed in the Speech Recognition feedback window, as it is not used to produce the speech in that case. Best wishes, Jonathan On Mar 14, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, > > I’m not actually inputing any text file; I’m writing something like this: > beep > delay 0.5 > say “You have a new message.” Using “Will” > > My goal is to have this be an audio file that I can use later. On the last > line would I type -o will.aiff > > I’ve been reading documentation, but much to my annoyance, I’m still doing > something wrong. > > Thanks for the help, > Traci > > On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > >> I'm no AppleScripter but the say command takes a parameter to say where to >> save the aiff audio output instead of playing it through the speakers. >> Normally you could do >> >> say -f input_text_filename.txt -o output_audio.aiff >> >> there are lots of other parameters to the say command which you can find by >> doing a >> >> man say >> >> in terminal. >> >> CB >> >> On 3/13/14 6:08 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've done this in the past and I can't remember how. It is driving me >>> crazy and googling isn't getting me the correct solution. >>> >>> If I'm creating a script with the say command, using a particular voice, >>> what is the last line in the script to save that as an .aiff file? >>> >>> One reason I'm doing this via Apple script instead of save to iTunes as a >>> spoken track, is I want to use the beep command before the say command. >>> >>> Fingers crossed, someone out there knows exactly what I need. :) >>> >>> Traci >>> >> >> -- >> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
