Save "Text-to-speech" as a file

Brief Description:

Have you ever wanted to convert text-to-speech as an audio file to create spoken dialogue for use in your Final Cut movie projects?

For example, if your movie required an actor speaking to his or her iPhone and having a conversation, this would be possible.

My goal is to have the voice of Siri speaking a script written in TextEdit.

This creates unique opportunities in designing movies where a computer voice is needed.

Let's Begin:

1. On your Mac, open TextEdit
2. Press Command + N (New Document)
3. Press Command + Shift + T to toggle Plain Text mode on
4. Type whatever you want (a few sentences, paragraphs or anything you want spoken)
5. Press Command + Q to Save and Quit
6. Name the file "Sample Text", make sure to save to the Desktop and Press Return

With the file on the Desktop, now we can convert to speech with the following steps:

1. On your Mac, open Terminal
2. Press Command + K to clear the screen
3. Type "say -f " (be sure to include a space)
4. Drag the file from the Desktop into the Terminal
5. Type "-o " (be sure to include a space)
6. Drag the file from the Desktop into the Terminal again
7. Delete ".txt" by pressing ESC + Delete twice
8. Press Return to create the audio file to the Desktop
9. Press Command + Q to quit the Terminal