iSpeak It for Mac

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• Much better than built-in speech to text program in Mac

  solmax_dotmacDecember 31, 2013

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  The program allows you to convert any text to an MP3 version. I have said up a library that I like to use as a sleep aid - I have a three week duration audio that I find valuable. It is also good for car rides. The built-in Mac function is klutzy and difficult to batch process. The text can be automatically broken up into sections by use of the built-in "split document" function.

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  The text of the file is always included as a part of the lyrics for the texts. Sometimes it is good, but when you don't want the text always there you have to manually delete it.

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• I spoke too soon.

  BusyGuyySeptember 19, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It works fine on my Intel 10.5.8 MacBook Pro but I can't get it to work on my PPC 10.5.8 G5 dual. It must lose stars because of that. I'll drop several in order to create the average I now think it deserves.

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• A nifty little utility

  BusyGuyySeptember 19, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Now if only there were more options in Preferences. For example, other languages... I think I would like to see it as a preference pane (on/off mostly) and a menu item. Open a document, go to menu, select "read it out" Or, even more ubiquitous, when Pref Pane is on, open document and tool starts to read it without further intervention, after a manually-set time delay. Most Apple voices are pathetic. This technology still has a long way to go which, of course, is not the fault of this developer. I remember once trialling some voices and a core technology from Cepstral (or a name like that) and they were many times superior but...expensive. A great one-trick pony that probably has a distance to go in terms of GUI and features. I support it.

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• iSpeak It Not working

  todd.wright1December 8, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />As other say, great idea but poor in the execution. Not working 98% of the time... crashes and error meessages on conversion to iTunes. I don't have the patience of others to try this in different formats on different machines with different OS scenarios. If it doesn't work it doesn't work.

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• iSpeak It Not working

  todd.wright1December 8, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />As other say, great idea but poor in the execution. Not working 98% of the time... crashes and error meessages on conversion to iTunes. I don't have the patience of others to try this in different formats on different machines with different OS scenarios. If it doesn't work it doesn't work.

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• What can I say, we both tried.

  bpt.tvSeptember 27, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />God as my witness I put over one solid month into trying to get this application to work fluidly. I love the concept, and I so wanted to love the app. Such is not the case. Like the sun rising in the eastern sky, this app always quits converting files near the first third of the copy. The promise that this application held was not of text to audio, for that can be accomplished numerous ways; the promise was the fine control over the automation of the process. In other words, I could set the application to converting, and walk away. Unfortunately I wasted way too much time taking this utility and leading it by the hand, through many steps of the way, over and over and over. I tried it on multiple Macs, I tried different versions of OS X, and I tried it with different voices including Cepstral, I reinstalled, repaired permissions, fixed privileges, ad infinitum, and still, not once did I experience an A-Z conversion. In the end I stitched together a little hack utilizing the following Applescript and some regular expressions. Feel free to copy and paste it and go nuts. --Part 1: set soundLocation to (choose file name default name "text2audio.aiff") --Part 2: set theText to (the clipboard as string) say theText saving to soundLocation

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• youcanrunnakedDecember 14, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Any way to support word processed files (Word, AppleWorks) in addition to plain text?

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• SilverFishDecember 14, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is really an excellent idea. Working in academic science I can see great value for this being being able to download papers, and get

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• mondomacDecember 14, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Originality gets three stars. piterpan, an aif file is far larger, even downsampled, than a standard mp3 file. If I made aif files of all

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