Introducing a couple of free Mac apps I've created

By Ashley, 10 October, 2023

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi all, I've created a couple of small, simple apps that I think might be of use to others. They are as follows:

Clipper, a simple way to view and edit the contents of the Mac clipboard. I've encountered several apps where VoiceOver cannot interact with text content ot read it in a more granular fashion (by character, by word etc). The only way around this I found was to copy the last phrase to clipboard, paste it into a text edit document and work with the text that way. So I made Clipper, a little app that you can invoke using keyboard commander or by setting up a keyboard shortcut in system settings. Clipper will display the current contents of the clipboard, and allows you to edit the text and copy your changes to the clipboard. Simple as that.

The other app is 'text to audio'. This application takes a text file as its input and can export the whole file, or the file by line, word or character, as spoken audio files in the output folder of your choice. I created it as a way to create batches of audio files as sounds samples for talking projects, but it has a lot of other uses.

You can find them at the following links:
Clipper: https://theblindmansworkshop.com/clipper-clipboard-text-editor-for-mac/

Text To Audio: https://theblindmansworkshop.com/mac-application-to-convert-text-to-audio/

Hopefully these are of use to someone.

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