Hi,
I don't think there's an easy hack to speed up VoiceOver's rate, but
you could check. There may be information in the Developer document.
Jane queried the Accessibility team over a year ago to get information
on how to speed up text-to-speech being transferred to audio via an
Automator script and got the information on how to embed commands to
change the speech rate or other voice attributes along with a
reference document. Here's the link to that post from a search of the
list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24218.html
<begin partial excerpt>
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>
But that only covers text to speech and not VoiceOver. The main
reference document might cover VoiceOver, but it's probably easier to
ask the Apple accessibility folks.
By the way, I just posted a reference to speeding up podcast playback
in the thread for the Tip about using Quick Look in Leopard.
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hehe that's funny I thought I was the only one who thought VO
speech was too slow. I have amusingly enough had a few instances
where by some strange happening my voiceover speech did get
turbocharged past the 100 mark, though those times were rare,
accidental and they didn't last long. I don't really even know how
they came about.
On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:43 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Is there a hack to increase the Voiceover speech rate past 100?
