thank you very much for that. I will check out the other commands that you can use. On 2011-04-18, at 6:05 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Gibbs wrote: > >> What do you mean when you're talking about sending a file to iTunes is >> a spoken track? >> > Matt's original question was: > Hey list. > i notice that when I send a file to itunes as a spoken track, the voice is > really slow. I went into system prefs and made sure the default speed was > decently fast, but no matter what I do, its still slow. > > Matt was asking about making an audio file from a text selection. There are > a few different ways to handle this, but one of the easiest ways is to use a > Services menu option called "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track". In order to > have this show up in your "Services" menu options, you have to check this > under your System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts tab entries. > When this is enabled, you can select text (say, in a TextEdit document), then > move to the menu bar and arrow down to the "Services" menu option in your > application (Control-F2 or VO-M to move to the menu bar, VO-Right arrow to > the application, arrow down to the menu, press "s" to move to "Services"), > then VO-Right arrow to the sub-menu and select "Add to iTunes as a Spoken > Track" in order to have your text turned into either an AAC or mp3 track > (whichever your default import setting for itunes is set to) that shows up in > your iTunes music library under the track name "Text to Speech". > > To check this item under your Service Preferences, you can navigate to the > Keyboard Shortcuts tab in System Preferences. The easy way to get there is > to simply go to the "Services Preferences…" at the bottom of the Services > sub-menu, which will take you to the correct tab and pane to select services. > So: > > 1. Control-F2 then VO-Right Arrow (to navigate to your application menu on > the menubar, from any application) > 2. VO-Down Arrow, press "s" and return (to navigate to the "Services" menu) > 3. Arrow down to "Services Preferences…" and return > 4. On the Keyboard shortcuts tab, navigate (VO-Right arrow) past the > "Shortcut Categories" table (which will already be correctly set to > "Services") to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" table, and interact > 5. Use item chooser menu (VO-I) to find "Add to iTunes as Spoken Track". (You > can also VO-Right arrow to the service name, and then arrow down the list to > explore the options, but the list of services is rather long) > 6. VO-Left arrow to the check box for "Add to iTunes as Spoken Track" and > check it (VO-Space) > 7. Optionally assign a keyboard shortcut of your choosing. (Be careful not to > duplicate an existing shortcut that you use) VO-RIght arrow past the text > description and VO-Space to activate a shortcut. Then type in the shortcut > sequence you want to use (generally some combination of control, option, > command, or shift, and letter keys). > 8. Close the system preferences window (Command-W) > > Now when you want to convert text to a spoken track, select all with > Command-A, and apply your shortcut. You'll find the new track in your iTunes > music library (or you can check your "Recently Added" smart playlist to find > the track.) > > This is an automatic transcription procedure, so it uses the default voice > (Alex), and a default speech rate that you'll find quite slow. To change the > speech rate, as Ian noted, you can insert a command at the start of the > document that controls the rate: > [[rate 300]] > > These speech controls are surrounded by two sets of brackets. If you want to > read more about embedded speech controls (to control rate, volume, etc.), see > the developer's documentation: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/index.html > > Embedded commands are described in the section titled "Techniques for > Customizing Synthesized Speech" - > "Use Embedded Speech Commands to > Fine-Tune Spoken Output. > > Voice selection is not selectable by embedded commands, so if you want to use > another voice, you can write an Automator Script, or use GhostReader (a third > party software from Assistiveware). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
