Can you record text to speech internally on an iMac

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Can you record text to speech internally on an iMac

Dear All,

I'm working with Pages Text to Speech, or with the Text2Speech app for OS X (and am willing to update to the Pro version) to read a lengthy play from text to spoken format. That all works fine, but I'm wondering if it's possible to record the spoken version internally on the iMac while it's being read so that I can provide an audio file of the play for people who will be performing it -- so that they can listen to it. I can hold a recorder up to the speaker and record it that way, but I'm wondering if there is some way to record internally while the words are being spoken...maybe through Garage Band or iTunes? Anyone out there have any thoughts?

I'm working on an iMac 5K Retina running El Capitan 10.11.5.

Thanks much.

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 3, 2016 7:02 AM

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Rudegar

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Jun 3, 2016 8:54 AM in response to Barbara Smits

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-record-audio-from-your-computer-using-Qui ck/

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_mac.h tml

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Barbara Smits Author

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Jun 3, 2016 9:05 AM in response to Rudegar

Thanks to all who replied -- I've found the answers, except that I do have a question. Is there any way I can pause a recording to change voices or will the pause create separate audio recordings for every voice. This is a play being read, so there are different male and female characters and I would like to have one speak, pause, change the voice, and keep on going in the same recording. This is just to allow people to hear the play for practice reasons, so I'm not looking for really dramatic speaking here, just to give them an idea of the the flow of the play and when their part is coming up. Thanks.

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