Hi Simon. A good place to start learning automator is its help file.
You definitely don't have to have any programming experience to use
automator. As for actions, many actions are already installed. Quite
a number of third party programs have their own actions as well. For
example, Sound Studio comes with quite a number of automator actions.
I'm planning on recording a tutorial for automator for the next
screenless switchers. I'll be recording it within the next couple of
days. It will probably spam multiple episodes, so I can start out
simple.
Darcy
On 21-Apr-08, at 9:39 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Darcy,
I'VE NOT USED AUTOMATOR BEFORE EITHER. IS THERE A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO
USE IT? DO YOU HAVE TO BE FAMILIAR WITH PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES TO USE
IT?CAN ANY SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS BE DONE THROUGH AUTOMATOR? WHAT TYPE
OF ACTIONS?
BEST WISHES
SIMON
On 21 Apr 2008, at 00:14, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi Michael. Basically all you need are three automator actions.
Get contents of text edit document, text to audio, and import audio
files. You need to have the text file you want converted open in
text edit. The work flow gets the text, converts that in to
speech, and then imports that audio file in to itunes.
I don't know if you've used automator or not, but it's very easy to
get started. In automator you create a workflow, which is nothing
more then a sequence of steps or actions. The output of the first
action, is the input of the second action, and so on.
Hope this makes sense.
Darcy
On 20-Apr-08, at 6:53 PM, Michael Babcock wrote:
so how do i use automator to convert text to mp3? I have some
fanfiction authors who want there fanfiction in audio format.
On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Michael Babcock wrote:
hi all;
i installed the Infovox iVox voices otday and want to know if
there is a way i can have peter read a .txt file into an mp3 file
or something? I want to try some testing before i try a few other
things. Is there a way to do this auto or will i have to here the
txt file every time it records it?
thanks
mike
