I can't help you with the dns issue but here is a message from another list of how to convert text to mp3 or what not in itunes.
There are two ways to get text into audio. in terminal, type "man say" without the quotes and press enter. I say this because it has some different stuff you can do with it like specifying the file format and the voice you want. the file you use for input must be in plain text however. The second method uses alex only and converts to an itunes track but you can easily convert this to mp3. to convert a file, open the app of choice such as preview, text edit or pages, this is usually done by opening the file and letting the system choose the app to open it with and we can talk about what to do if you don't like the default. once the file is opened, press command-a to select the text in the file, press controlll-f2 or controll-option-m to focus on the menu bar. move right to the application menu, it will say text edit if you are in text edit for instance. press down arrow to move to the "services submenu". right arrow and if you find a send to itunes as a spoken track, press enter. if not, press enter on "services preferences" this brings up system preferences and lands you in the keyboard shortcuts menu. tab to categories and down arrow to services, tab and you will be in a list of services. down arrow to the item for "ad to itunes as a spoken track" and hit the space bar to select it. Press command-q to close system preferences. Now, back to services, move to the app window as above, move down to services, right arrow and press enter on ad to itunes as a spoken track. Itunes will ope and begin playing your track after a period of time depending on the size of the file you fed it. To convert the file to mp3 once it is in itunes, press command-comma and in the general tab, go to import settings, press space on this and choose mp3 encoder from the pop up, customize it any way you like and click ok. press command-w to close the preferences window. press controll-f2 or vo-m to focus on the menu bar, left arrow to advanced because it is closer to the left end, down arrow to convert to "create mp3 version" (it will not appear in the list if you don't configure the prefference for it) above and press enter. once the file is converted, you can find it on your hard drive burried deep in your home folder somewhere like this: users/your name/music/itunes/itunesmedia/music/unknown album/text to speech.mp3. or you can look for spoken text in the sources as a playlist. I'd tag this so it is easier to find on the hd if you wanna say put it on your stream or other mp3 player. note: I should hadd here to change the rate of speaking at the top of your file put this [[rate xxx]] where xxx is the number of words per minute. so for example [[rate 300]] would read the file at 300 words per minute. Hope that helps. On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:27 AM, Samuel wrote: > Now I'm interested in the text-to-mp3 thing in iTunes. I did a quick > help search and nothing came up. > > To whoever suggested that I may ha a problem with DNS. Is there a way > to fix that? (and please, don't tell me to google "dns". I hate it > when people do that. > > On Jul 28, 8:14 pm, Chris Moore <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> Are the infovox voices no good? Also iPal from Humanware is coming to the >> Mac in September if it is a OCR reading solution you are after. >> On 29 Jul 2010, at 01:43, Kevin Shaw wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi Samuel, >> >>> Running Windows on a Mac doesn't defeat the purpose of buying a Mac. Apple >>> encourages, albeit in a round-about way, people to run Windows on their >>> Macs. This is why Apple made BootCamp in the first place. >> >>> Having said that, I'm not aware of any comparable product to K-1000 running >>> on a Mac. I used to have two computers until my PC died recently. Once my >>> iMac is set-up, I'll be installing Windows on it so I can run K-1000 and a >>> few other PC specific programs for my work. >> >>> I tried the website in my Safari and it loaded in about 2 seconds. Perhaps >>> you've got some type of DNS resolving issue, but this is speculation on my >>> part as I'm not familiar with how your system is set-up. >> >>> Someone else can speak to the quality of Spanish voices, I'm sure. >> >>> Hope this helps. >>> Kevin >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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