Automator: Text to iPod
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Mac OS 10.4 includes an application called “Automator” that allows end users to automate common tasks in limited ways without coding. I have some friends that commute to school (around 3 hours a day in the car). This means they have large amount of reading to do and a large amount dead-time in the car. Some of the reading is electronic, so they have been using the built-in text-to-speech features of the Mac. This is not ideal, however, because their is not a way to pause or skip around the reading. I suggested they convert the text to a speech sound file and play it on their iPods. So this is a tutorial to do that with Automator.
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