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user3145075
user3145075

Reputation: 31

Storing text using text-to-speech as an audio file (i.e. mp3)?

I love listening to podcast-style audio while walking or in the car, and I love studying with the help of the text-to-speech feature in Mac OS Yosemite. I want to download hour-long audio files to listen to in the car (I have already been accustomed enough to sometimes robotic-sounding tts voices).

How do I download text-to-speech to an audio file such as mp3? I can "speak selected text when the key is pressed" and press option+esc, but shouldn't it be easy to just download the audio (without doing tedious stuff like recording tts audio playing)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 424

Answers (2)

Andriy Kondzolko
Andriy Kondzolko

Reputation: 822

You need to save text from "text-to-speech" into a file, then when you will have a text there, you should convert text file to audio file

More information on how to do that, you can read here:

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/quickstart-protocol

How decoding files, you can read here:

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/base64-decoding

Upvotes: 0

JanX2
JanX2

Reputation: 1333

You can try the say command in from the CLI (e.g. via “Terminal.app”). There is a detailed description in the man-page (type in say, right-click on the word and select “Open man page”). The --output-file= option does what you want.

There also is a number of apps that wraps this functionality in one way or another.

Upvotes: 0

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