Thanks. I thought about using that, but that can't append audio to one file. 
Still, it'd be easy enough to set things up in a big old script… Hmm, this 
might work. Thanks.

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On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you don't mind playing around in the terminal you should be able to get 
> the "say" command to do what you want. You can pass it a text file to speak 
> and have it write the audio out to a file. In the text file you can embed 
> commands to the speech engine to change pitch and such. I'd have to dig 
> through the archives of this mailing list to dig those up but a little 
> Googling should get you going. Here is one doc that seems to cover things:
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/FineTuning/FineTuning.html
> 
> CB
> 
> On 1/31/14 8:24 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Is there an app out there that can, given a properly tagged text file, 
>> convert the text into speech in different voices and write the resulting 
>> audio to a file? I have to memorize lines, and I'd like to convert them to 
>> speech in a file I can replay. Ideally, these would be spoken with one voice 
>> per actor, so the script sounds more life-like and is easier to parse as I'm 
>> listening. Is this possible, or do I have to make my own app? Thanks.
>> 
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>> 
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