Converting Text to Spoken Music Track suddenly doesn't work
I'm a writer and discovered that outputting sections of my work via the Services menu (Services>Add to Music as Spoken Track command) helps in reviewing my work. I can use it on the chapter I'm working on and go for a walk and listen. This is really helpful, despite mispronunciations, in finding typos or hard to follow sentences.
I've been doing this in Nisus Writer and Scrivener. The latter still works, but Nisus stopped working after working through last week, despite an error code. Not sure what that error code was, but the error code I got this week was "OSStatus error -1743" and there isn't a lot of info available.
I'm trying to convert via Nisus a longer RTF document (a section of several chapters) as spoken word output by Scrivener. (Scrivener is a novel- and script-writing application that works really well in document and version management.) I tried the same thing using Word, but while I got no error, I also only got a 5K audio file that had no content.
The Services>Add to Music as Spoken Track command worked as recently as last week, but not this week, which is also last year but not this year. I don't recall an update to the Mac OS. I did the most recent update to Nisus yesterday after failing, hoping that would help, but no luck.
Took a look at several TTS programs on the Mac App Store but they either want you to upload to their servers, which isn't going to happen, or don't work very well at all.
This has been a really effective tool in cleaning up documents and improving flow. It still works in Scrivener, but I have no idea how to output a longer document in it.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14
