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Text to speech
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:29 pm
by soundtechdan
hi
I'm looking for something that can do text to speech. I know about shit talker but I want it for mac. I would ideally want to have it as human as possible but if not any old noise that sounds like speech will do.
Anyone help
cheers
i-spy
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:32 pm
by Lux Libra
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:40 pm
by tjwett
you can just use TextEdit that comes with OS X. just type something and choose Edit > Speech. if you want to save it out then i suggest using Automator, it has a text to audio file action that works great.
the voices in Tiger are shit but the new voice in Leopard is very, very good. sounds real.
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:42 pm
by StompyJ
Open up terminal in OS X.
Input: say "Hello World"
enjoy
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:57 pm
by mikemc
fwiw, this seems like a way you can "upgrade" your OS-specific voices for $30
http://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/downloa ... 1124808311
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:19 pm
by doc holiday
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:52 pm
by interceptor
http://nsgn.net/software/say/
It´s simple. Does speed and pitch and saves to aiff.