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Can someone tell me if iMac comes with Speech to Text dictation, like windows does as this would make my use of the computer much easier and smoother. Huge thanks Jay More Less. IMac Snow Leopard, Mac OS X (10.6.3), iPhone 3G, iPad Posted on May 29, 2010 10:15 AM. Clipboard to AAC File (New: 09-09-09) Select text in any application, copy it, then run this program to convert it to an AAC file. CK's Text-to-Speech.
Basics of Text Editors for Mac OS X
Text editors born from the need to enter code of computer programs and data into the computer. The precursor of text editors were therefore hole punch cards. The history says that the he first Emacs implementation was by Richard Stallman along with the other developers. These powerful Text Editors has more features than the default TextEdit software of Mac; although feature wise TextEdit is far superior than Notepad, the default Text Editors for Windows OS. With the advent of computer terminals, CLI based text editors became important. One of the first programs of this group include the 1967 written O26 editor on CDC 6000 – mainframes and the vi editor from the year 1976. The Vi editor is still the standard text editor for unix like operating systems.
Most has extentionabillity, customization features, supports various programming language’s Syntax Highlighting. More powerful text editors can be used to run Macros, can have automatic code completion feature, automatic indentation, Display of call parameters for functions and methods etc. You can read about Syntax Highlighting separately.
List of Text Editors for Mac OS X
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Emacs / GNU Emacs : Possibly the fore father of the current style of Text Editors. Details and download link can be found on FSF’s website :
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Aquamacs : Modified version of GNU Emacs. Can be downloaded from :
TextMate : TextMate comes as a free software :
TextMate is another software which is historically quite important. TextMate 1.5 won the Apple Design Award in 2006.
Vim (Vi IMproved) for Mac OS X : Important because we use to edit the vimrc file for changing the color profile for syntax highlighting for command line simulator like iTerm2.
TextWrangler and BBEdit : Both supports Retina Display, quite well known advanced text editor for Mac OS X. TextWrangler can open the kext files. How to speak text messages.
Gedit : gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. We wrote about Windows Gedit before.
Please add more names of Text Editors for Mac OS X (under GNU GPL or Compatible License) if you know to be actively existing, through comments.
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10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
Thanks for this hint which works fine but only with Alex voice although I've selected Vicki in system preferences!
Is there a way to set another voice?
Is there a way to set another voice?
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
You can make the change in the Speech Syst Pref, Text To Speech option. There are three male and three female voices from which to choose.
Edit voice used, filename, encoding method, etc.
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
You'll find it's called 'Text to Speech', to be found within the Music section of iTunes.
The original text to speech file is created as an AIFF file, apparently. Once it's placed in iTunes, you'll find it's been converted there into the AAC VBR 128kbps format.
This script throws out the AIFF version of the track once the iTunes track has converted. If you need to convert it to MP3 instead or any other format, just retrieve the file from the Finder's trash.
The original text to speech file is created as an AIFF file, apparently. Once it's placed in iTunes, you'll find it's been converted there into the AAC VBR 128kbps format.
This script throws out the AIFF version of the track once the iTunes track has converted. If you need to convert it to MP3 instead or any other format, just retrieve the file from the Finder's trash.
Jacques, thanks so much for the help.
I'm finding that if you've changed the default AAC encoder settings in iTunes (Preferences > General > Import Settings), the final import step will fail with an error. I had to select the 'iTunes Plus' preset to make it work.
(If you don't normally encode to AAC, you can change the above setting and then go back to your preferred format. The service will use AAC regardless.)
Even after a failed import, you'll still find the original AIFF file in the Trash.
(If you don't normally encode to AAC, you can change the above setting and then go back to your preferred format. The service will use AAC regardless.)
Even after a failed import, you'll still find the original AIFF file in the Trash.
Edit voice used, filename, encoding method, etc.
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
If I change the voice in the Speech preference pane, I get the new voice in other applications, but the voice in the iTunes clip is always Alex. Is Alex specified in the script?
Edit voice used, filename, encoding method, etc.
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
You can edit the AppleScript .workflow file easily!
If you double click the .workflow file, it'll open up in Automator - where you can then edit and change attributes. When you save your results, use Save As so you can keep the original script intact - as a back up. You'll probably have to activate your new script by using this original hint, once you're done.
You'll find the file on your System hard drive, under System > Library > Services > Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.workflow.
It's a VERY simple script actually!
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
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Thanks for the tip, I find it very useful for transferring spoken information to my iPhone, which can then be listened to under circumstances that would favor this form of retrieving information. I tried it out with .pages documents and with texts on the web and it worked with both, but it does not work with .word documents. Is there a way of making it work with .word and PDF documents?
It's quite possible this only works with Cocoa apps.
Copy the text out of any Carbon (Word, Acrobat Reader, etc) app, then switch to a Cocoa app (TextEdit is a fast easy one to launch) to paste it in temporarily. Once it's there, you can select it and use this hint to create the spoken word file.
Then just quit TextEdit without saving, no sense in having two copies.
= )
Another quick word processing app (also written in Cocoa) I'd recommend is Bean <http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html> - it's free and simple.
Copy the text out of any Carbon (Word, Acrobat Reader, etc) app, then switch to a Cocoa app (TextEdit is a fast easy one to launch) to paste it in temporarily. Once it's there, you can select it and use this hint to create the spoken word file.
Then just quit TextEdit without saving, no sense in having two copies.
= )
Another quick word processing app (also written in Cocoa) I'd recommend is Bean <http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html> - it's free and simple.
It will work with PDFs if you open them in Preview (a Cocoa application) rather than Adobe Reader.
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
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Actually this hint is well documented in David Pogue's Snow Leopard: the Missing Manual, page 265. It seems that Alex is the only voice you can use.
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10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
You can change the voice, see other comments here.
10.6: Easily create spoken iTunes tracks from any text
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Word for mac 2011 italic text disappearing. How do you modulate the voice speed? Changing the system setting doesn't help and I can't find an option using the automater =/