-o means the next thing on the command line is the name of the output
file. The process is silent unless you add a --progress flag which will
update the last line in terminal with stats like the number of seconds
of processing left (ETA). No idea about the speed of your automator
flow. Or maybe you can have automator invoke this terminal command?
CB
On 8/29/12 2:28 PM, Jane wrote:
What doers the o stand for, and can you keep it from reading the text aloud? I
am wondering if it will be any faster than my automator workflow.
Jane
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
There is probably some clever way to do it from the GUI but I'm comfortable
doing stuff in terminal so here is how I would do it. Get a text file with what
you want said. In terminal do
say -o audiofile.aiff < textfile.txt
That will use voiceover to generate an aiff audio file of the spoken version of
whatever text is in textfile.txt. You can then load up that AIFF into iTunes to
convert it to mp3 or use Sox if you have that installed. You can specify the
audio file format to be something else but mp3 was not one of the choices. In
playing around I found it to be quite fast - about a 20:1 ratio for
performance. In other words it took 1 seconds to generate 20 seconds of spoken
text audio.
CB
On 8/29/12 11:34 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi all,
I know this has been around before, but it isn't something I've ever needed to
do. What's the best way to convert a txt or PDF document to MP3?
TIA,
Donna
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