Hi George, If your test showed that 10 pages converted into 14 minutes of playing time, then you probably did just hit the 2 GB limit. Rough calculation is that your 160 pages would take 224 minutes, and take up about 2.2 GB.for the uncompressed sound file. (This is a crude estimate, so don't try to adjust your number of pages based on it.)
Were you OK with the speaking rate of the spoken track? Most people who are used to screen readers find the default rate too slow. You could insert an embedded command for the rate, or you could follow the example that Sarah gave. (If you don't specify a voice, Alex will be used by default.) If you wanted to use the "Add to iTunes as a spoken track" method, you could insert an embedded command for the rate at the start of the document, like: [[rate 250]] That's the rate of 250 words per minute that Sarah uses. The embedded speech command for the rate is two left brackets, followed by the word "rate", followed by a space, followed by two right brackets. You can insert them at the start of your test file and then decide whether you like that rate when you play it back. Sarah's method can also be amended to use iTunes to convert the track to an m4a or m4b file. Remember that if you make an editing change, like typing or pasting in the embedded command for rate, then selecting the text to convert to spoken track, that you can always use the Command-z shortcut to undo your editing change steps (and remove your inserted rate command.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On 30 Mar 2013, at 18:32, George Cham wrote: > > I did a test on smaller documents. Total time was 14minutes. > Thanks for your help. > U > > > George, > > Sent from my iPad > > On 31/03/2013, at 2:41 PM, "Esther" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi George, >> >> Did you try doing an initial test with a smaller document first, such as one >> of only 10 pages? If so, do you know roughly how many minutes of track time >> that came out to? Are you using any embedded commands to change the speaking >> rate? It's possible that you hit the 2 GB limit for the uncompressed audio >> file. I think that the service menu option first changes your text to an >> uncompressed spoken audio file in AIFF format, then runs a conversion to the >> standard compressed format that iTunes uses. All these sound formats (AIFF, >> MP3, M4A, etc.) hit a limit at about 2GB. You haven't provided any >> information on the number of words in your documents, but if I assume one >> page contains 250 words, then your document is about 40 thousand words long. >> If the speaking rate is 200 words per minute, and the default rate might be >> slightly lower than that, that's 200 minutes or more of speech in the >> uncompressed file. If I assume that each minute takes 10 MB of uncompressed >> audio, you c > ou >> ld have hit the 2 GB limit. These are very crude estimates that can be off >> by factors of 2. But the basic answer is, yes, you could have exceeded a >> limit that caused the conversion to fail. >> >> If you've done any previous tests converting smaller files, what was the >> track playing time for the number of pages you converted. And if you used >> an embedded control for the speaking rate, what was it? Obvious things to >> try are: 1) run a small test first, if you've never tried this before, to >> get an idea of conversion times, file sizes, and desired speaking rate; 2) >> use an embedded command for the rate, since you'll probably want a faster >> speed than the default. Exact value depends on your preferences and what >> you're listening to, 3) break your document up into more than one part by >> selecting subsections for converting to tracks. >> >> By the way, if you have an iPhone or iPad, and you have the Voice Dream >> Reader app, you could just listen to the document at the speed that you >> selected for that voice. Your position would be remembered, and you can >> also set bookmarks and do searches within the file. Most common file types >> are supported. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On 30 Mar 2013, at 16:49, George Cham wrote: >> >>> I'm in the process of adding documents to itunes as a spoken track. >>> I'm in a document with 161pages. >>> The conversion starts. >>> Then I get an error saying that import encounted an error. >>> Is this because the document is too large? >>> And how can I overcome this problem? >>> >>> Typed with Fleksy >>> reply://[email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> George, <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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