Soi you could use say, set the speed rate, set where you want the
files split,and tell it to record somehow?
Interesting. Butg how is it done?
Jane
On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:49 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
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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