Esther, you're just way too cool for school. :) I wanna be like you when I grow up. Thanks much. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Esther wrote: > 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. >> -- >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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