At 8:00 PM -0000 1/8/2, Shawn O'Donnell wrote: >Does anyone have any recommendations on how I could automate the >process of taking a text file, converting it text-to-speech, and then >storing the audio as an AIFF or MP3 file?
The only way I've been able to record text-to-speech using my iBook was to connect an iMic USB adapter with a single cord (with stereo 3.5 mm male plugs on each end) from the iMic's audio output jack to its audio input jack. Unfortunately without hooking up extra audio equipment I haven't figured out how to monitor the sound while recording. I didn't spend much of time fiddling with this. I decided to go from my iBook to a stand alone cdr instead. Audio fidelity was not a priority for my project. If I were to automate such a process I would use MacPerl to control the text-to-speech and to drive KeyQuencer scripts (via KeyQuencer's Hypercard XCMD) that would coordinate the recording of the sound using an application such as CD Spin Doctor which can save the recorded results to an aiff file. Then a KeyQuencer script would have iTunes (or something similar) convert the aiff file into a MP3. QuicKeys might work just as well as KeyQuencer (http://www.binarysoft.com/kqmac/kqmac.html). David Seay http://www.mastercall.com/g-s
