[osx] Recording the text to speech feature.

condra · Post by **condra** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:44 pm

Hi.

Does anyone know any software which will resample the text to speech feature in OSX?

I know I can route a soundcard output to an input but it would be handy if there was a quick easy way of doing it.

AFIK Audio Hijack wont sample it.

Thanks.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:49 pm

Have you tried soundflower?? I use it to grab audio from my various game emulators, can't imagine it would be any different with that.

.lm.

condra · Post by **condra** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:17 pm

Thanks for taking the time to reply man.

Worked a treat.

wollej · Post by **wollej** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:57 pm

you can also use the program "say" on the commandline and use the option "-o filename.aiff" to create an aiff file.

Just open a terminal and type "man say" to show the other options.

interceptor · Post by **interceptor** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:17 pm

This should fit your needs:

http://nsgn.net/software/say/

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:56 pm

wollej wrote:you can also use the program "say" on the commandline and use the option "-o filename.aiff" to create an aiff file.

Just open a terminal and type "man say" to show the other options.

nice, you can specify the voice with -v argument, the voice name is the same as the OSX name for the voices.

this is easy

cd ~/Desktop

say -v Vicki -o vicki.aiff stuff to say

you'll have the file on your desktop

condra · Post by **condra** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:51 am

interceptor wrote:This should fit your needs:

http://nsgn.net/software/say/

AHHH, even better! Cheers, this is exactly what I had in mind.

xone: · Post by **xone:** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:26 am

How do you guys record text-speech sound on to Ableton or as a wav, or aiff file on Mac?

thanks

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:09 am

The version of Say that I downloaded has a checkbox for "speech to desktop". No need for terminal.

Thanks for the link!

.m

killparis · Post by **killparis** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:18 pm

if you have word 2008 you can type something up in a document and then click the automator menu on the top right and create a .aiff file of the document.