Thanks, Chris. When I feel brave I'll try this. :) Donna On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> 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. > -- 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.
