To vary the speed, you put in two left brackets ra number and two right brackets at the top of the file. it reads it at that speed witn whatever your system voice is set to.
Jane ' On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > -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 >>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
