I don't think that you can. Those services are probably Automator workflows. In Automator, there is only one action that I know of that can speak, and that action only allows setting the voice, not the speed or any other parameters.
So, if you want to do some serious text to audio conversion, you'll probably need to investigate a dedicated program. Try this, though. Might work. And I have to write this funny so it won't mess up VoiceOver. You can put two [ symbols in a row, then write rate 600 And then put two ] symbols immediately following that. This is an embedded command to set the speech rate of a Mac voice. When the TTS encounters that, it will change the speaking rate. Replace 600 with what ever value works for you. The value is supposed to represent words per minute, but I don't think it tracks that exactly. Just adjust to taste. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:52 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: iTunes as a spoken track: how to increase the speech rate? Hi Just sent a file from Textedit over as an iTunes spoken track, and the speech is gods-awful slow. How do I increase the speaking rate for this service? I hae already increated the rate in the speech preference pane, and the sample play button hs it at a fairly tolerable rate, but this doesn't appear to transfer to the send to iTunes as a spoken track service. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY -- 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.
