Thank you for sending such detailed instructions! If this works in Snow Leopard, I might try it there; I've been playing around in lion for the past hour or so, and haven't been able to get anywhere. I think I was messing up regarding that third column, so I'll have to try to look at that again when my brain is a little more functional. I'm almost tempted to see if anyone who has dropbox could convert this file to an mp3 for me, but now that you've given me steps to try, I shall keep trying to fight with it. Thank you very much for your response, and I hope that you're having a great day! Missy
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Making an mp3 with lion? Hi, Here's what you do. BTW, the same option exists in Snow Leopard. Go to system prefs and select keyboard. Now select the keyboard shortcuts tab. In the first table you encounter, choose services. Now in the second table interact, then arrow down to "add to iTunes as a spoken track" Make sure the checkbox for this is checked. In column 3 of this table is an edit field. If you interact with this, and preform a mouse click (providing you've moved the mouse cursor to the spot) you can input a keyboard shortcut for the action. For example, you can press command option A in the edit field and pressing that would send the selected text to iTunes as an audio file. Once you have at least the action enabled via the checkbox, it should show up in the menu bar underneath the applications menu. Like Mail, iTunes, Safari, etc. once in here arrow down to the services sub menu. Use VO down arrow to find the Add to iTunes option. I suggest using VO down arrow because, on occasion, I have experienced just using the arrow keys will skip over this option for some strange reason. hth . Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 23, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hello, all. I don't know if I'm misunderstanding, or if I just dreamed > this feature existed, but I thought I read somewhere that with lion, > one could make an mp3 out of a document. I have a file which I'd love > to have Alex read as an mp3, but can't figure out how to do it. I > checked the context menu when the file was selected, but didn't see > any relevant options. Do I need special software similar to text aloud > to make this happen on my mac, or am I just not looking in the right place to > find the feature? I understand that I can't create a multi-voice file the same way I can using text aloud on my PC, but just having Alex read something into mp3 format would be more than adequate for now. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure this out, and I hope that everyone is having a great day! > Missy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
