I recall having seen - somewhere and I can't recall where - a feature of some program, that would "read aloud" text directly into an iTunes audio file. That, so that you can later listen to it on your iOS device.
Does that sound familiar to anybody?
Mac Pro 2.8GHz 8 Xeon, MacBook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
It's very easy using Quicktime Player (which comes with your Mac). Open Quicktime Player, go to the File menu, and choose New Audio recording.
Sue
To clarify, I'm not looking for a means of recording myself reading the document. I mean that the app, whatever it was, would itself text-to-speech the text document directly into an audio file in my iTunes library. That is, it would synthesize an audio file containing the sound of reading the text document in English and then stuff it into my iTunes library.
I'm pretty darned sure I saw that feature on some app somewhere, and told myself that I'd like to try that out sometime. Unfortunately, I forgot where I saw that feature.
Plenty of discussion about this in the links below. One of them has scripting to do this.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1933695
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/speech.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2170731_turn-text-file-audiobook-mac.html
http://automator.us/leopard/examples/ex07/index.html
Ah, very good. I'll check them out shortly. Thanks!
I haven't read all of these yet, but pretty good chance that this will answer my question. Thanks!
(Hmmm... Curious: It doesn't seem to have any means of marking your reply here as solving my question...)
You can mark two posts as "helpful" and one as "solved" but you can't mark the same post twice. If you at first flag a post is helpful but later decide it solves the question then you cannot change it.
Read Aloud into iTunes
