Hmm. I didn't see Darcy's responce. Rather interesting. I'm gonna try
that later on.
On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Orin,
You wrote:
Since Automator doesn't seem to be working for me in this regard,
does
anyone know of a program to do this without automator, because this
automator script isn't cutting it where it won't let me adjust the
rate.
I haven't been following this thread closely, but did you add the
speed
arguments that Jane found out about by contacting the Apple?
Here's an excerpt from her post where she forwarded the answer:
<begin excerpt>
From: Accessibility <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 5, 2007 3:39:49 PM EST
Subject: Re: Adjusting Say Speech In Terminal
Hi Jane:
Check out this site for information on how to embed commands into
the text to speed it up or change other attributes:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/index.html
Embedded commands are described in the section titled "Techniques
for Customizing Synthesized Speech" - > "Use Embedded Speech
Commands to Fine-Tune Spoken Output.
For example, to set the rate of the spoken text to 300 words per
minute use something like:
"[[rate 300]] This text should be spoken fast."
<end excerpt>
I'm a bit confused, because I thought that Darcy responded to you on
the list about this:
<begin quote>
Re: Automator Help
Darcy Burnard
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:08:23 -0800
Hi. In order to choose a speaking rate when converting a text file
in to audio, you have to imbed a command at the top of the text. The
command is two left brackets, followed by the word rate, followed by
a space, followed by the rate you want, followed by two right
brackets. Note that I mean the brackets to the right of the letter
p. Also note that the scale here is in words per minute, not a
percentage like in VO or the speech preferences. So it may take a
little trial and error to find a rate that's comfortable for you.
Darcy
<end quote>
Did this not work? Maybe you can ask him for clarification?
Cheers,
Esther
