Over 10 gb of space. Hope that's enough left.
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
*grimace* No, that particular iMac seems to be misbehaving. The
following should work:
1. Paste text.
2. Navigate to "Save as File.." button. VO-keys-space to click
button and begin conversion. (i.e. just what you'd expect)
3. System beep will sound when text-to-audio-file conversion is
complete.
I tried it again here just to be sure and everything went fine. You
have plenty of empty space remaining on your hard drive, right?
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
Glad you got it to work, but I am still having trouble.
This time I got it up to 98MBb.
Instead of cutting and pasting direct from the email, I saved as
an rtf file and then pasted that text in, but I'm still not sure
what's going on. Do I need to use shift-vo-keys-space to click on
buttons too make it work or something?
Still at a loss why this is being difficult. I must have the
iBook from hell.
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Jane,
All good here with the conversion of your Braille Monitor text
(thanks again for sending). I pasted it in as rich text (plain
text is fine too) and created a 354.6 MB audio file with no issue.
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
I meant to ask earlier. Will this program only handle plain
text files?
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Dave,
I didn't bother, in the current release, to make any changes to
numbers returned for the speech settings (i.e. rounding, etc.).
It's something I'll take care of in the near future. Some of
the numbers are large but you probably only want to listen to
the number before the decimal point. Following is some
information on each of the settings and typical ranges for each.
Pitch Rate: Use is self-explanatory. Typical range is 150 - 180.
Pitch Base is just what most refer to as just pitch - this is
the pitch setting you were asking for. We're using it to set
the base frequency of the voice. Typical range is 30 - 65.
Pitch Modulation: is a speech adjustment not often included but
a handy one to have. This is a one setting you might or might
not want to play around with - but you can really season a
particular voice to your own taste with this one. This setting
changes the modulation depth i.e. "the actual pitch of
generated speech might vary from the base pitch up or down as
much as the modulation depth. Typical range is 0 - 50.
Volume: Use is self-explanatory. 1 is the highest and default
setting. Typical range is 0.0 - 1.0. To lower the volume
halfway, for instance, you might set this to .5.
Ah, I'm guessing your System Beep is also set to Purr. I can
change the "file finished" alert sound to a distinctive sound
built into the app.
Yes, seems that VO will necessarily interrupt the speech if
playing (but it won't, of course, interrupt rendering to audio
file) - don't think there is a workaround for that one.
I hope the info helps!
Thanks,
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:52 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi Joe,
This is nice, simple and clean but a couple of things at least
need clarification.
The volume is listed as 1, I don't know what base pitch is
(long number) and what is pitch modulation which is set at 100.
I have a request if you can fill it. I'd either like to be
abble to set my finished signal or have it bbe something than
purr since for me at least, that seems to be the one I get
when I've done something rong so to speak.
Also an observation. Like other apps, vo interrupts play from
the window.
Thanks for a great interface though, it solves an issue of mine.
