[mac4theblind] converting to a spoken track in itunes.

From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:36:23 -0700
hello. I know how to do this in fact here are the steps I followed taken from 
another list I was at the time on.

The second method uses alex only and converts to an itunes track but you can 
easily convert this to mp3.

to convert a file, open the app of choice such as preview, text edit or pages, 
this is usually done by opening the file and letting the system choose the app 
to open it with and we can talk about what to do if you don't like the default.

once the file is opened, press command-a to select the text in the file, press 
controlll-f2 or controll-option-m to focus on the menu bar.  move right to the 
application menu, it will say text edit if you are in text edit for instance.  
press down arrow to move to the "services submenu".  right arrow and if you 
find a send to itunes as a spoken track, press enter.  if not, press enter on 
"services preferences" this brings up system preferences and lands you in the 
keyboard shortcuts menu.  tab to categories and down arrow to services, tab and 
you will be in a list of services. down arrow to the item for "ad to itunes as 
a spoken track" and hit the space bar to select it.  Press command-q to close 
system preferences.  Now, back to services, move to the app window as above, 
move down to services, right arrow and press enter on ad to itunes as a spoken 
track.  Itunes will ope and begin playing your track after a period of time 
depending on the size of the file you fed it.

To convert the file to mp3 once it is in itunes, press command-comma and in the 
general tab, go to import settings, press space on this and choose mp3 encoder 
from the pop up, customize it any way you like and click ok.  press command-w 
to close the preferences window.

press controll-f2 or vo-m to focus on the menu bar, left arrow to advanced 
because it is closer to the left end, down arrow to convert to "create mp3 
version" (it will not appear in the list if you don't configure the prefference 
for it) above and press enter.  once the file is converted, you can find it on 
your hard drive burried deep in your home folder somewhere like this:
users/your name/music/itunes/itunesmedia/music/unknown album/text to speech.mp3.


but I try and do that and I get auto mater has no windows. did this method 
break with itunes 10? this message was written in jul of this year.

Thanks.


Sarah Alawami
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[mac4theblind] converting to a spoken track in itunes.

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