Oh, that's cool! thanks. Donna On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
> Hello Donna! > > Simply highlight any text you want within a document, or an e-mail...or even > a webpage. THen you can go to the "Services" submenu and find "Add to iTunes > as a spoken track". Of course, you will need to enable this within System > Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard SHortcuts tab, then check the checkbox for the > service you wish to add. These are located by selecting the "Services" > shortcut category then finding the second table to the right of that which > displays the services available to you. It is not necessary to assign a > keyboard shortcut to it, though the item will still be available if you > check the appropriate box. > > Regards, > Nic > On Oct 12, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi Nic, >> >> Sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm wondering how do you >> add txt as a spoken track? >> Thanks, >> Donna >> On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody! >>> >>> So, I've kind of been tinkering around with the feature to add a text to >>> iTunes as a track. The native service works great, and it even overwrites >>> your system speech rate preference if using the [[rate <WPM>]] parameter >>> above the block of text highlighted. >>> >>> The issue appears when you want to use another voice. Apparently,it does >>> not take this into account and always will use Alex, even if you change the >>> system voice which seems a bit silly to me. I have a Danish text I'd love >>> to read on my iPhone when I'm flying to the Netherlands on Saturday without >>> using the built-in TTS, mainly because of the bit rate and because of a lot >>> of pronunciation problems. >>> >>> Is there another parameter I can insert that will basically overwrite the >>> preference that Apple apparently "wants" me to use? This has kind of made >>> me a bit annoyed already. I am gonna submit this to accessibility either >>> way, but I'd still like to know if there is a workaround preferably with >>> the native service built in >>> . >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nic >>> GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com >>> Facebook >>> Twitter >>> Skype: Kvalme >>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>> Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 >>> AIM: cincinster >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com > Facebook > Twitter > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 > AIM: cincinster > -- 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.
