Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates
I just found a potential solution. The slider only goes up to a max of 350 wpm, but the setting is stored in: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist To see it, run from terminal: defaults read com.apple.speech.voice.prefs VoiceRateDataArray I get something like this: ( ( 1835364215, 201, 350 ) ) We need to change the last element in each sub-array. Back up that file, in case this fails. Then from terminal, run: plutil -convert json ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist -o - | python -c 'import json, sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);[x.__setitem__(-1, 500) for x in d["VoiceRateDataArray"]];json.dump(d, sys.stdout)' | plutil -convert binary1 -o ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist - If it succeeds, reboot. Only because I'm not sure how to get things to reload without it. Once done, your system speech rate should be set to 500. Change that number as appropriate. To reverse this, adjust the slider in the speech preferences. On 3/4/2014 7:45 AM, nolimitsforl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to this group. I have a print disability, dyslexia, and I > utilize text-to-speech to read. Recently, I have been turning the speech > rate to the highest setting and I would like it to be even faster. I > have found it not common for someone with dyslexia to request really > high speech rates, but I have read people using voiceover may user > faster speech rates. Does anyone know of a way to increase the > text-to-speech rate without needing to use voiceover? I do not need a > screen reader, but I do need text to be spoken. I didn't read much (just > enough to get by) until I got a Mac with the text-to-speech built. I > love this future, but just wish the speech rate would go faster as I > have a lot of school work I need to read. Any suggestions? > > Thank you, > Sarah > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: apostrophe versus right single quotation?
It might be smart quotes.
Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you
want to turn them off.
For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark
(’), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either “ or ”
depending on which end of the quotation you type.
On 7/29/2014 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some time now I've noticed that when I type an apostrophe, Voiceover is
> speaking back to me that I typed a single right quotation mark. What's going
> on here? And what is it actually typing? I can get it to say "apostrophe"
> if I hit the key twice, then the second press gives me an apostrophe, and
> then I can go back and delete the first keystroke which is the single
> quotation, but that's just ludicrous! Has anyone else seen this? Does
> anyone have a solution?
> Thanks,
> Donna
>
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Re: Mobi to epub or HTML.
None of you found ebook-convert which comes with calibre? I don't have a mac, but this should work: go to your terminal, cd to the right place, and do: ebook-convert file.mobi .epub If your shell can't find it, just specify its path. Once done, it'll put an epub in the same place you ran it from. Obviously, this won't work with drm infested mobi files. On 4/24/2012 1:14 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi. > > I have tried calibre, it is not accessible. > > Best regards Annie. > Den Apr 24, 2012 kl. 1:27 AM skrev sandi sørensen: > >> Hey. >> The answer too your ebooks needs seems to be a program called calibre. >> Not sure if we can use it yet, but just curled it, will write more if it >> works. >> >> >> /sandi >> >> >> On 4/22/12, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Do any of you know an application for the mac, that can convert mobi to >>> epub, html text or rtf. I have tried stanza, but it will not work very well. >>> I have played a little with calibre, but it is inaccessible. Do any of you >>> know an application that would solve that problem. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
Re: Mobi to epub or HTML.
There's one minor change you can make, to avoid copying the book. >From your example, ebook-convert is in >/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS, so in your downloads folder you can >do: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert file.mobi .epub (or .txt or whatever format you want it in). This avoids cluttering up calibre's directory with your books. If you do this often and don't want to type that long path, just symlink ebook-convert to somewhere on your $PATH (e.g. /usr/bin). sudo ln -s /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/bin On 4/25/2012 1:37 PM, sandi sørensen wrote: > hi annie, nope i thought about that when i wrote it , since i can see > what is on the monitor now. I turned the monitor off so i was sure > that the instructions i gave you would work with voiceover. > If it is too geeky for you i might be able too make a script for you > so you can say stand in your "download" folder and just have the books > made there, instead of coding and copying the files too the other > location like i did in the last mail, but if you have any problems let > me know and i will happily help you. > Note, it seems that epub files are split into chapters where mobi > files are just one huge html file. > here is a better example, and if you follow that it should work, > however if it don't, you are welcome too mail again. > in this example i am assuming that your books are in your download folder > 1: stand in your books folder with the epub file or mobi file and type > the following. > cp file.mobi /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS > 2: type ebook-convert file and a name of the folder for the book. > ebook-convert file.mobi sandi > Okay that was the hard part, of course now i am not sure how much bash > or as it is called on a mac terminal you are used to use, but this is > relatively easy, i believe i have made it so if all goes wrong and you > are suffering from an anxiety attack you can just paste the commands > in. :) > at least that is my intention by writing it as i do. > I have used it on 2 books so far and it seems to work okay, to be > really honest i was about to find a hack so i could extract the files > from the books i have bought before i read about the program on > google, so thank you for getting me a kick where it counted:) > but again write if it don't work, if you want me to explain it in > danish just write me privately and ill happily do so. :) > > > > /sandi who is not in the least a geek just cause she got 8 macs in > one huge cluster. > > > On 4/25/12, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >> Hi Sandi. >> >> Great. Will you not need sighted assistance to turn on the command line in >> calibre? >> >> Best regards Annie. >> >> Den Apr 25, 2012 kl. 1:14 PM skrev sandi sørensen: >> >>> hey, thanks works :) >>> to annie >>> see my example below for instructions . >>> jadzias-MacBook-Air:MacOS jadzia$ ./ebook-convert test.mobi sandi >>> 1% Converting input to HTML... >>> InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running >>> on /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/test.mobi >>> Parsing all content... >>> Forcing test.html into XHTML namespace >>> Referenced file 'images/7use.jpg' not found >>> 34% Running transforms on ebook... >>> Merging user specified metadata... >>> Detecting structure... >>> Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... >>> Source base font size is 12.0pt >>> Removing fake margins... >>> Cleaning up manifest... >>> Trimming unused files from manifest... >>> Trimming u'images/00016.jpg' from manifest >>> Trimming u'images/00015.jpg' from manifest >>> Creating OEB Output... >>> 67% Creating OEB Output >>> The cover image has an id != "cover". Renaming to work around bug in Nook >>> Color >>> OEB output written to /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/sandi >>> Output saved to /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/sandi >>> jadzias-MacBook-Air:MacOS jadzia$ >>> >>> >>> On 4/24/12, Tyler Spivey wrote: >>>> None of you found ebook-convert which comes with calibre? >>>> I don't have a mac, but this should work: go to your terminal, cd to the >>>> right place, and do: >>>> ebook-convert file.mobi .epub >>>> If your shell can't find it, just specify its path. Once done, it'll put >>>> an epub in the same place you ran it from. >>>> Obviously, this won't work with drm infested mobi files. >>>&
Re: more on safari problem
Please go into system preferences, then to date and time. From your email, your date is behind by over a year. Once you fix that, check the box that tells it to set automaticly. Try opening your ssl sites again and things might work a little better. On 1/1/2012 12:55 PM, jean parker wrote: Hi: Ok I reset Safari twice but that hasn't solved anything. The warning says that Safari can't establish a secure connection to whatever server belongs to the web page I am trying to open. It also says things like certificates are invalid or that site has no certificate. This seems to me like something in privacy and security settings got disrupted. I went there but can't make any sense of the options. It does seem to open at least some of the sites in my bookmarks but this is really a pain. Other ideas? Jean -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project
Hello, I have started a new project, the Historical Access Preservation Project, or HAPP. The website is at: http://allinaccess.com/happ The goal of this project is to preserve the software needed to access older systems that are no longer in wide mainstream use, such as DOS, Macintosh pre-OSX, and OS/2. Also included would be hardware devices such as the Braille 'N Speak. So far, I'm looking for archives and information. Software archives that I can sort through and put what I can on the sight, and information such as documentation and current contact addresses of companies that may still be selling their applications, or may be willing to make them freeware/open source. Any help that could be provided for this project would be appreciated. Please forward this to anyone that might benefit from it - Tyler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
Re: voiceover words per minute
In all these thread replies, I don't think anyone has answered the author's question. While I don't have a mac, the same thing should apply here. To get an approximate value for words per minute, you should be able to do something like this: 1. Select a portion of text, for example out of a book, webpage or email with about 1000 words. Copy and paste it into a document. Get a word count. Your editor should have some way to do that. Set your desired rate, go to the top of the document, and start a timer. I don't know if there are any software timers for the mac, but you need to time it to the second or so, or get a longer sample. When it finishes reading, stop the timer and do the math. wpm = wordcount/elapsed time in minutes On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:15:52PM -0500, Greg Aikens wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the > different voiceover rates? If I am reading with VO at 80% how many WPM is > that? How many WPM is 55%, etc.? > > Thanks for any help. > > -Greg > > -- > 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.
Re: transferring large files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I gather from the Hamachi comment that you're trying to do this over the internet, and not a lan or something like that though the same thing would apply. I can think of a few ways to do this, listed below. I'm assuming you're looking for resume capability due to the size of these files, and that you have, or can get, some basic familiarity with command lines. 1. One of you sets up an ssh server with access to the files you want to transfer - either on the same account if you trust the other person enough not to go snooping, or to another account with the appropriate permissions set up. Once done, you can use rsync to transfer files over that ssh connection, with optional bandwidth control so your upstream isn't completely swamped. OS X has a built-in ssh server, and I'm pretty sure it comes with rsync. 2. Find a mac ftp server and use that. Depending on how advanced your ftp server of choice is, it may or may not support encryption. It looks like OS X already has one built in, though it's probably limited. 3. Set up a web server with access to the files and use something like wget -c to resume downloads. The disadvantage of this is that web servers only go one way - if you had one set up, the other person couldn't send you stuff, only receive from you - you'd need one on the other end. Jim Gatteys wrote: > Hi all! A friend and I want to transfer files of about 4 gig in > size between our macs. I'd like any ideas on how best to do > this. We used Hamachi a couple of times but it doesn't seem to > work any longer. Thanks, Jim > > - Find me on facebook or: Skype: jimintexas Yahoo or > Aim/Ichat: jgatteys Msn: jgatt...@gmail.com > - -- Tyler Spivey - PGP Key ID: 0xae742aaf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJLhePZAAoJEPb0SlyudCqvP/kP/2r/KxDFbxs4E9ImYZ7cMdht apeTn9SUONrAN422SZX+tLqkJmWK4MMPUIYt2fPHsMsuYCvKSNM5FeIDtAA6XSEZ 1qhMvDFOTzl8EeAICtX7wkAnO5h09cy190hWXiTizfDxJdqpfXVDZ6hRSgb2byRG SxMYcEcnvpj1ikVuCS/tjzI378kPRYofLmWMIWqMJH+MBMh+1MCrxlYqZSzlcxzu 41Xxd/UZxu7zSLB2ttV3cD9BoUpTXLnzzgFCbZ5unJmQGVH9k6eyHDLiM+VfG6vg b6qkA1+oXv4smdD7+XFTrvR7J9W0fTQzhdH3eDAXM3oEsWnxNpuSVwNcIi97liQx 9ik2EHDlYNOM/Vbslu8AvMuGIsqol6ZfIy0fdtltMOpWSD34A+d6z+NzFbnyRNqn 9+dEn6VKk7WYCqRmJWkvmxX5T8mAp5QivGBu+2qiITtTFTSMIfUcnVokuZVrsA7R aH6jH7RVCAfZWEngQv60Q+2GBQr3sU7wwYT5EVn4ihhlK9azhjKS6putLTSnOn3D wCjkGGrTL93HWhXfJe5Mcluvx2/Sn/yybMlYrQO9vLnSHlsSUyLkOUV4W1mQrVmd oSEbV4I8s8+BJroKlP4hYDXrRUEvPQhgDI29FvF1jGQFqxOuvAv5QXMecJTiTZ18 JDOaYG5N3+Uu4rC9Tvmd =e+VG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
