Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I think you can actually set a few arguments in the add to ITunes as a spoken track service. The only one you seem to be able to do within dictation and speech is the default voice and the speech rate. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business thro

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Or you can do what Erik suggest, which sounds a lot easier than my solution, unless you wanted to embed some directives in the doc. Hmm, maybe those directives would still be honored by the add to iTunes process. Here is one of the early emails which talks about using the say command and embedd

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
If you uses TextEdit and convert the document to plain text does it read reasonably well? If so then you can use terminal to generate an AIFF file of the audio. So if I save the document as important_stuff.txt then in terminal I would do say < important_stuff.txt -o important_stuff.aiff and y

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread erik burggraaf
Why don't you just highlight all the text, press control option shift M, and choose add to ITunes as a spoken track? Then you can just burn the resultant audio to a CD. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support p

Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Maurice Mines
Good afternoon, I have an interesting accessibility problem. I have a document that reads very well in TextEdit. But the document that I am being easily on a computer, has to be converted into an audio form format? So my question to the group is what he is the best way to achieve that? I have tw