Hi George, Did you try doing an initial test with a smaller document first, such as one of only 10 pages? If so, do you know roughly how many minutes of track time that came out to? Are you using any embedded commands to change the speaking rate? It's possible that you hit the 2 GB limit for the uncompressed audio file. I think that the service menu option first changes your text to an uncompressed spoken audio file in AIFF format, then runs a conversion to the standard compressed format that iTunes uses. All these sound formats (AIFF, MP3, M4A, etc.) hit a limit at about 2GB. You haven't provided any information on the number of words in your documents, but if I assume one page contains 250 words, then your document is about 40 thousand words long. If the speaking rate is 200 words per minute, and the default rate might be slightly lower than that, that's 200 minutes or more of speech in the uncompressed file. If I assume that each minute takes 10 MB of uncompressed audio, you cou ld have hit the 2 GB limit. These are very crude estimates that can be off by factors of 2. But the basic answer is, yes, you could have exceeded a limit that caused the conversion to fail.
If you've done any previous tests converting smaller files, what was the track playing time for the number of pages you converted. And if you used an embedded control for the speaking rate, what was it? Obvious things to try are: 1) run a small test first, if you've never tried this before, to get an idea of conversion times, file sizes, and desired speaking rate; 2) use an embedded command for the rate, since you'll probably want a faster speed than the default. Exact value depends on your preferences and what you're listening to, 3) break your document up into more than one part by selecting subsections for converting to tracks. By the way, if you have an iPhone or iPad, and you have the Voice Dream Reader app, you could just listen to the document at the speed that you selected for that voice. Your position would be remembered, and you can also set bookmarks and do searches within the file. Most common file types are supported. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 30 Mar 2013, at 16:49, George Cham wrote: > I'm in the process of adding documents to itunes as a spoken track. > I'm in a document with 161pages. > The conversion starts. > Then I get an error saying that import encounted an error. > Is this because the document is too large? > And how can I overcome this problem? > > Typed with Fleksy > reply://george.c...@outlook.com > > > > > George, > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
