Hi Anne and Will, It's also possible to create an mp3 or aac track (including text that you want spoken in a Foreign language) if you do not have VisioVoice or GhostReader, but have one of the Infovox iVox voices by using Automator. For example, I just tried using the Automator workflow, downloadable from the examples of Automator for Leopard at:
http://automator.us/leopard/examples/ex07/index.html to put an AAC track of Chekhov's story "Lady with a Lapdog" into my iTunes library using the new Russian Infovox iVox voice. Open the workflow (in Automator). Change the default voice from Alex to your selected (foreign language) voice before you run the workflow. 1. In Automator, VO-right arrow to the workflow, where you hear "Save Clipboard as Spoken iTunes Track workflow" and interact (VO-Shift Down arrow) 2. Navigate (VO-down arrow) to the "Text to Audio File" action and interact (VO-Shift Down arrow). 3. Navigate (VO-right arrow) to the popup button following "System Voice"; press (VO-Space) and change the voice from Alex to your selected voice to use for text to speech in this action (e.g. Julie for French, Alyona for Russian, etc.) by typing the first letters of the name or by using the arrow keys and press return. There's a "Play" button if you VO-right past the system voice popup that allows you to sample the voice, but you'll have to turn off VoiceOver if you want to listen to the sample. 4. Optionally, navigate (VO-right arrow) to the text box to name the audio file (default is set to "Spoken Text"), and also change the folder in which it is created/saved. At this point I switched apps (Command-Tab) to my TextEdit file. (You can also stop interacting, VO-Down Arrow to the next "Import Audio Files" action, interact, and VO-right arrow to change the popup button for the used format from "AAC encoder" to "MP3 encoder". And you can stop interacting, VO-Down Arrow to the final action, "Add Songs to Playlist", interact, and change the playlist from a new playlist named "Spoken Text", to an existing playlist with a name you specify.) I copied the text to my clipboard (Command-A then Command-C) and used the Command-R "run" command in Automator on the downloaded workflow. I was also able to make the text record at faster speed by pasting the rate command: [[rate 300]] at the beginning of the TextEdit file (in Cyrillic letters for Russian) before I copied it to my clipboard. For more details on how to use the Automator workflow, and how to modify it (including getting contents directly from a TextEdit file rather than the clipboard), see my earlier post: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg00417.html (Notice: archiving of this list at the secondary archive (Mail Archive) site has been started again, since February 28, 2009. I don't know of a way to easily post a link to our primary Google Groups archive, and in any case you can't use access keys at that site. The new archive URL is specifically for our Google Groups list. The mail archive's pages for the old macvisionaries discuss list remains: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Will, > > On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:33 PM, william lomas wrote: >> can I get visio voice to export a track direc to mp3? >> Or do I have to use ITunes to do that?A.R. Command-i in VisioVoice >> will create an audio file in iTunes. Whether this is MP3 or any >> other format depends on how you have configured iTunes. > > Cheers, > > Anne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
