Hello, The service Nicolai was referring to, I believe, is Add to iTunes as a spoken track. It’s easy to use and you can select the voice you want. I always advise people to activate this service and set a short cut for it in System Preferences.
Cheers, Anne > On 1 Oct 2015, at 17:09, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > In terminal, do a "man say" find out all about the say command. You can just > type "say bob" and it will speak "bob" with the default voice. The man page > has options to have say take input from a text file and output to an audio > file. > > CB > > On 10/1/15 10:29 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> You can already do this with a service that's in OS X, actually. You >> technically don't need apps for this. As far as I have seen, though, >> Audiobook Builder only works with audio files to turn them into books. >> Still, you could use the OS X service in conjunction with the app to merge >> the files, or make chapter stops. >> >> Nicolai >>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Singing Sparrow <sunsh...@abe.midco.net> wrote: >>> >>> will audio bookbuilder take text files and turn them into synthic speech >>> files? >>> >>> On 10/1/2015 9:18 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Cocktail is a general-purpose utility that assists with cleaning, >>>> repairing and optimizing your Mac. It has a bunch of tweaks, and can also >>>> be scheduled to perform various tasks like cleaning up caches. >>>> >>>> Audiobook Builder is exactly what it sounds. It lets you take files and >>>> make them into audiobooks. It has a lot of features, too, although I don't >>>> use it myself. >>>> >>>> Jeff, you may want to grab the new Cocktail build specifically for El >>>> Capitan here: >>>> >>>> http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/ >>>> >>>> Nicolai >>>>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Singing Sparrow <sunsh...@abe.midco.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> what is cocktail, and audio book builder? >>>>> >>>>> On 10/1/2015 8:10 AM, jeff `greene wrote: >>>>>> Hi I was trying to open: cocktail, audio book builder, and even google >>>>>> chrome was acting funny. Jeff >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/1/15, Dionipher Presas Herrera <dionip...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> can i ask what apps are you trying to open? >>>>>>>> On 01 Oct 2015, at 2:10 PM, jeff `greene <greenebo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, Well, last night I upgraded to 10.11. Everything seemed to go >>>>>>>> smoothly, but half of my apps won't open, or they open saying they >>>>>>>> have no windows. I tried to copy the contents of my downloads folder >>>>>>>> onto a thumb drive and once I opened my thumb drive paste wouldn't >>>>>>>> work. I then tried to reboot into windows using bootchamp but it won't >>>>>>>> work. So, I guess I'll be going back to yosemite, but my question is: >>>>>>>> can I go to the app store, click on purchased, and download yosemite >>>>>>>> and install it? 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