Hi Darcy,
Dunno if this will help, but the say command in terminal honors the
rate set for the voice in system prefs.
On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi. I've decided to learn to use automator. I played with it
briefly a little while ago, but never did much with it.
I was thinking that I wanted to make an automator workflow that
could use Alex to convert the contents of a text file to an aac file
that I could then put on my ipod.
I have a couple questions about the text to audio file automator
action. First and foremost, is there any way to change the speed of
the voice? It defaults to a very slow setting. I thought this
might be changed under the speech section of system preferences, but
no go.
Also, is there a way of getting the contents of a text file in to
that action without having to use text edit? I was thinking there
must be an action that could get the contents of a text file and
pass that text along to the following action. The only action I
could find was one that got the contents of the front most text edit
document.
Anyway, as I said I'm just learning automator, so it's very possible
that the answers to my questions are obvious, but I'm currently
stumped.
Thanks.
Darcy
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