I have been needing to produce artificial voice sounds for a piece of work I am, err, working on. Apple used to have a particularly useful applescript called text2audio which now seems to have disappeared off the face of the internets.
Anyhoo, thanks to some patching together of various culled applescripts, and thanks to the delights of Automator to package it as an application, I’ve made a very simple app which asks for text input, and then saves this text as spoken audio in AIFF format. It uses the voice which is currently set in the Speech part of System Preferences.
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