Hi Buddy,
You've had replies from Bryan, Yvonne, and Gary that summarize your
options. Bryan and Yvonne are correct that you can't control the
speaking rate this way by preference settings; if you want to increase
the speaking rate you need to used the embedded commands for rate that
are described in Apple's documentation. They're also correct that you
can't do this directly. If you "sent a file from TextEdit over as an
iTunes spoken track" you probably used Automator. In that case you
can insert the embedded commands for rate in words per minute at the
start of your TextEdit file to increase the speaking rate, as Gary
mentioned. You do this by using a double set of brackets to enclose
your command for the speaking rate, such as "[[rate 300]]" (that's
"left bracket", "left bracket", the word "rate" followed by a space,
followed by the number of words per minute -- here given as "300",
followed by "right bracket" and "right bracket"; you don't actually
put the embedded command for the rate in quotations marks.)
Alternatively, if you don't use Automator you can run this from a
command line under Terminal using the "say" command, as Yvonne suggests.
I'll point you to two old posts in the archives that give this in more
detail. One gives the link to the Apple Developer document that
describes how to customize speech, and gives you the section to check
for embedded commands, then describes how to use this in an Automator
script:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg00417.html
[Re: text to speach]
[The links to archive posts in the article won't work; they refer to
Jane Jordan's original post from the accessibility team that provided
to the original information on embedded speech commands to this list
back in December 2007:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg24218.html
(Fwd: Adjusting Say Speech in Terminal)
and to Doug Lee's post on using the same embedded speech commands for
use in Skype notifications:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg40196.html
(How to speed up Skype VoiceOver notifications)]
The second post describes how to do this in Terminal with the "say"
command, and also gives links to the documentation on embedded commands:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08051.html
(Re: embedded voice commands)
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
Buddy Brannan wrote:
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.
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Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
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