On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Frank Lowney wrote:
I may have been dreaming but I recall an application that would use
Apple Text-To-Speech and record the speech to a QuickTime movie. Does
such an app actually exist? If so, where can I fine the MacOS X
version of it?
Thanks in advance for any and all leads.
AppleScript is all you need - the "say" scripting addition has been
enhanced to support output not just to speakers but also to a file
(AIF). See the "say" command in Standard Additions. I've used this with
quite a bit of success (can't say on what), though there are sometimes
a few gotchas. A simple example (runnable in any AppleScript compiler):
say "Hi Dr. Lowney, how may I direct you today?" using "Ralph" saving
to (((path to desktop) & "greeting.aif") as string)
I'm sure you can come up with better examples :) I personally used it
on a pretty large scale, in conjunction with LAME, to generate
synthetic spoken text in MP3 format... other than the usual tweaking of
cadence (I won't share my scripts for that in their current form) it's
a pretty good solution.
Sure beat hiring a professional voice (and I'd get real sick of doing
it myself - and even moreover, HEARING myself - so that wasn't an
option) for my application.
Best,
Roger Howard
Senior Digital Media Specialist
The J. Paul Getty Museum
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