Hi Vickie,
One of the advantages of converting text to an audio file is that it
makes the information portable - i.e. you can drop the audio file on
another smaller device, put it on some portable media (like a CD-ROM,
for instance), etc. and take it with you. A few people on the list
were previously using a program called Lips to convert text-to-audio
file. CSKDREV adds some features requested by frequent users of Lips
and (in the new version to be available shortly) solves some problems
related to VO interrupting the text-to-audio-file conversion. Cheryl
H., David P., Jane J. and Travis S. (plus others) might be willing to
tell you more about how they use text-to-audio-file conversion to
their advantage.
Kind regards,
Joe
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:14 PM, John Weir wrote:
I am not sure exactly what the CSKDREV really does diferently than
VO. VO converts text to audio when it reads the words in mail or
safari or text edit etc. Can you explain what yours does
differently or better? Vickie Weir
Kafka's Daytime wrote:
One more improvement:
You can now multitask with VO even while CSKDREV converts-text-to-
audio-file (though the CSKDREV application itself will remain
busy until conversion is complete). Note: it may take about 5 to
8 seconds for VO to return from the busy CSKDREV application and
become available for use...but after that you should be able to
do whatever you want on you Mac while CSKDREV works on converting
text to audio.
Kind regards,
Joe
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Folks,
I found a way to workaround VO interrupting CSKDREV text-to-
audio- file conversion. You no longer have to turn VO off to
prevent CSKDREV text-to-audio-file conversion from ending
prematurely. When conversion-to-audio-file is complete, the
CSKDREV application returns, the "audio file complete" sound
plays, and, finally, you hear VO kick back in. Note: you will
not be able to navigate with VO during text-to-audio-file
conversion by CSKDREV. In the future I'll look for ways to allow
you to multitask with VO even during CSKDREV text-to-audio-file
conversion. For now, this does not seem to be possible. I'll
compile and post the new version of CSKDREV sometime this weekend.
Kind regards,
Joe
