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
