Hello Donna, Remember that "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track" is a Services menu option, and since services operate on selections, it won't show up as a menu option until you select some text that you want to be converted into a spoken audio file. Once you select a section or all of a text file, this option will appear under the "Services" submenu on the menu bar for your application. (Control-F2 or VO-m to move to the menu bar, right arrow to the application, and arrow down to "Services". When you right arrow to the "Services" submenu, it should appear as one of the options.) If you're reading mail, you should be able to select some text in mail and find this option under your Services menu for mail, just as it should appear under the Services menu for TextEdit. If you have defined a keyboard shortcut for this service, once you have selected text you will also be able to use that shortcut as an alternative to navigating to the Services submenu under your application.
Also, remember that unless you have inserted an embedded speech command at the beginning of your text to change the default speaking rate, your spoken audio file may sound slow to you. To change the speaking rate, you'll have to put in a line like: [[rate 300]] That's two left brackets, where "[" is the character to the right of the "p" key on the U.S. English keyboard, followed by the word "rate", followed by a space, followed by the number of words per minute you want to use, followed by two right brackets. I don't believe that the "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track" Service menu option is checked by default. New users will have to navigate to their Keyboard shortcuts pane under System Preferences for Keyboard to check this option. An easy way to navigate there is to go the last element of your Services submenu under any application, which is "Services Preferences". For example, from mail, Control-F2 to the menu bar, right arrow to "Mail", arrow down to the menu, press "s" to move to "Services", right arrow to the submenu, press Command-Down arrow to move to "Services Preferences" and then press return. Navigating this way will bring up the "Keyboard" window of your System Preferences with the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab already selected, and with "Services" already highlighted under the first table of services. Then, you only have to navigate to the second table of shortcuts and check the box for "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track". Donna, I think that you bought GhostReader with your Infovox/iVox voices. GhostReader has Command-E (Export to audio file) and Command-I (Export to iTunes Track) menu options under the FIle menu. I'll remind you that with GhostReader there is a command that lets you switch between the Infovox voices and languages in your file. Also, if a file is open, you don't have to select text to export it to an audio file. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 29 Mar 2013, at 01:56, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I've done this before, but now, when I look in Text Edit, I no longer see > this option. Does anyone know if it's still possible to do this? If so, can > you tell me where to find that menu item, I've checked all the menus in Text > Edit. > Thanks, > Donna > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
