Hello Darcy.
I don't know of a range of values. I e-mailed the accessibility folks
and they sent me a link to a really complicated reference on
controling speech output with commands embedded in text. As an
example, they gave me the rate control, but there's lots more that I
haven't even begun to play with.
What I am *really* curious about doing now is, say, editing a file to
have certain characters read with certain voices, for example, and
have a narrator voice. But that will be a while coming. I may just
have to write a test file and see how it works.
I may be able top play more tomorrow--the doctor has told me she would
prefer it if I stayed home to try and get better from this cold--so I
will see if I can come up with more.
But yes, to get back to the original question. All I did was put
left-bracket left-bracket rate 300 right-bracket right-bracket at the
very top of the document, left it open in Textedit, and ran the
application. I am trying to figure out how to get text from email,
hav e it delete certain text, and then run it, but I don't know if
that is possible.
To the other person who wanted to ask questions, I can *try* and help,
but I think actually Darcy is a little more experienced than me; he
was the one that explained the very basics--he deos more with it thatn
I am doing at the moment--though I am working on changing that, at
least as far as creating books goes. Which makes me wonder---if I put
embedded commands into a text file, and ran it through books2burn, i
wonder how well that owuld work? I *think* it would work well. I am
doing the Say one for now, because it simply seems to be faster. My
one gripe with my automator action er application so far is that it
automatically names the file audio text.aiff, and places it on the
desktop, and what I want to do is to have it have the same name as
thbe original file, except for audio at the end. Ideally, I woul.d
have it convert to mp3, but I don't know if that can be done without
me playing it in iTunes. Can it?
I apologize--the toddler is sleeping, and I am just sitting down to
think and so all this came up.
Jane
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi Jane. This is cool. So then do you just place the rate command
in the text itself? Also, you used rate 300 in your example. What
is the range of values you can put in there?
Darcy
On 5-Dec-07, at 6:15 PM, Jane Jordan wrote:
OK, so I could have done this in Terminal, I guess, but Terminal
was proving to be difficult to get to work right.
I did an automator work flow that takes text from TextEdit and
converts it into an audio file.
If you put left-bracket left-bracket rate 300 right-bracket right-
bracket
you will get Say to read the file at that speed. I spelled out the
symbols, otherwise Voic eOver would interpret them as a command and
you'd suddenly start having very fast speech! Or slow, depending
on how you like your Mac to talk to you.
Anyhow, now I am experimenting with ways tomake it even more
interesting,. It seems that saving a Workflow as an Application is
the best way to go.
Jane
