On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Richard Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a reasonably elegant way (on a Mac) to have Rev turn text into > speech and record it as a wav file... Ah, so you are on Mac. Well, it looks like AppleScript or Automator is your friend again. Take a look here: http://www.ehow.com/how_2170731_turn-text-file-audiobook-mac.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art Then there is the problem of converting the AIFF file to WAV. It is possible to do this with Automator using the Import Audio Files action. You can specify the WAV encoder, but that is all you can specify, there are no options to set 16 bit 16k mono :-( Unfortunately Audacity doesn't have AppleScript support. Another option maybe to preset your iTunes Preferences to import to 16 bit 16k mono WAV format and then use AppleScript to tell iTunes to import the files you just created with 'text-to-audio' action above. In this case basically all you need is: tell application "iTunes" launch try add this_file end try end tell Of course it's probably worth testing to see what format (bit/k/channels) the Automator Music Action 'Import Audio Files' outputs. You may be lucky, if you set iTunes Preferences to 16 bit 16 k mono WAV and you use Import Audio Files to encode to WAV it might possibly come out at 16 bit 16 K mono thereby eliminating that need to actual import into iTunes. HTH _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
