You do it inthe services menu when you are focused on the program you want to 
do it in. I change my default voice actually and that sets the pref for the 
voice.

Good luck.
On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:45 AM, 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
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