Creating an audio recording of text on Mac

By Dave Nason, 7 July, 2023

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

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Hi all,
I have a text document, currently in Word but it can easily be copied into Text Edit or another app.
I'd like to create an mp3 audio recording of the file being spoken by a TTS.
I could have sworn there used to be a feature for this in Mac OS, but I can't find it now. Does it exist?
Cheers,
Dave

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By Craig on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 21:42

Hi, David Woodbridge recorded a podcast on this feature a while ago. I am currently in the process of trying to learn how it works

By Dave Nason on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 21:42

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Thanks guys. I successfully got it working with those instructions. Only issue is that I can't seem to change the speech rate. I tried messing around with system voice in System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, but this is not working out too well.
I can speed it up using Amadeus Pro, but that is making it sound a bit weird and echoey.
I will look for David's podcast too, cheers.
Dave

By Igna Triay on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 21:42

Speech central can do this as well.