It's an AOL account--taken from when I was in college and attending
ROTC classes. :)
Jane
On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:07 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
I like that screen name lets set it up. I have MSN and g-mail. Will
either of these work or do I need a dot Mac account?
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Jane Jordan wrote:
Forthat matter, the three of us could get together and chat.
My screenname is BlindCadet.
Jane
On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi Shaun. Are you on ichat? I was thinking that automator is one
of those things that would be easier to show rather than explain.
So if we could do the ichat screen sharing thing some time, that
might be easier.
Darcy
On 5-Dec-07, at 10:35 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Either Jane or Darcey, can I contact either of you for a
understanding of Automator?
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Jane Jordan wrote:
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
