That's what I meant, the speech settings in system preferences. I
know you can have automator run shell scripts, so I guess you could
have a script that uses the say command. I'm still very new at
automator, so am not exactly sure how that's accomplished.
Still though, it does seem like a bit of an oversight that you can't
adjust the speed in the automator action.
Darcy
On 24-Nov-07, at 4:05 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
might it be honoring the speech settings in system prefs? could you
use the same switches as "say"? I believe it has a rate.
On Nov 24, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hey Cara and Jane. Unfortunately there seems to be one major
drawback with the text to file and speak text automator actions.
Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a way to
adjust the speaking rate of the output. There's a popup button in
the action settings that allow you to set the voice you want to use,
but no speed control. Also, it doesn't seem to honor the setting in
speech preferences.
Darcy
On 24-Nov-07, at 5:32 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Jane, am not sure about adding new actions such as pasting into
Books2Burn, but I'm sure there are others here who know quite a bit
more on it. I did find the following though, as a predefined action.
Text to Audio File
This action takes text and creates a sound file using Text to Speech.
Input: Text
Result: Files/Folders
Version: 1.0
Copyright: Copyright © 2004-2007 Apple Inc.
So you could copy the text to the clipboard via an Automator action
and then also have it create an audio file all with one step.
HTH
Hope you had a lovely holiday!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Nov 23, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Jane Jordan wrote:
I was tghining about Cara's question, and how well that seemed to
work.
So, would I be able to make an action to take the text from within
an email--jnot including the addresses, copy it to the clipboard
and paste it into say books2burn? Then I could do the creating of
the audio book myself, if needd be, unless there were a wy to just
have it set a AppleScript or something to automate the entire
process ...
Jane
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