Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread Tyler Spivey
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: ( (

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Last time this came up, in 2009, I found a hack by editing the voiceover plist settings to go more than normal. Haven't tried it since but maybe it still works: https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@macvisionaries.com/msg49064.html CB On 3/4/14 10:45 AM, nolimitsforl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

RE: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread BBS
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nolimitsforl...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 10:24 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates Hi, Thank you for the response. I must be doing something wrong still as I still can

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread nolimitsforlife
Hi, Thank you for the response. I must be doing something wrong still as I still can not get it to work. I have the Text to Speech screen open when I do this but it does not seem to do anything. Am I making a stupid mistake or do I need to use only Voiceover if I want it to go faster? I really

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread isaac
You can speed up the speech rate by first pressing control option command left arrow to switch to the rate setting then use the up and arrow keys with the control option command keys held down to adjust the rate. On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:45 AM, nolimitsforl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to

Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hello Sarah. Interesting question, I would like to low this as well, as I too use the main voice at high rates but it can't go any faster. Thank you. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:45 AM, nolimitsf

Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates

2014-03-04 Thread nolimitsforlife
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 r