Darcy, Could you let me know on or off list once your tutorials are
ready and where to find them on the web? With many kthanks for your
encouragement and advice. Simon
On 22 Apr 2008, at 01:14, Darcy Burnard wrote:
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
