2021. 4. 23. 21:30ㆍ카테고리 없음
I love the text to Speech feature of Mac OS X. Since I'm not a native English speaker I'm very happy about all the additional languages added since Lion came out. However, I do use English as well as my native language (German). Changing voices is a bit of a pain. It just requires too many steps to be comfortable.
Apple has created lots of new speech synthesizer voices for Lion. It's easy to download them, but the fact that they exist isn't very-well advertised in System Preferences (or otherwise in the OS). Either do what Walt said or select your text, right click, point to Speech, click on Start Speaking. To have your Mac read selected text out loud, go to System Preferences and open Speech; then under the Text to Speech tab, check the box for Speak Selected Text When the Key is Pressed. It's designed in consultation with disability superusers, I told them. Ordinary people are overwhelmed by all the options. Turn on the features and your blasted Mac or iPad does voice-over for everything. You can't just use it to read the text on a web page or, as here, in a book. In my case, I couldn't get the feature to work with iBooks.
Is there any way to make this easy? I was looking for shortcuts, maybe a drop down menu somwhere up in the right corner, anything would be fine.
Since my search was not successful, I hope to find some advice here on SuperUser. Thanks a lot!
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I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:
You could also create a service in Automator:
There is a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 where the shortcuts for Automator services don't always work until you hover over the services menu from the menu bar. WorkflowServiceRunner can also use over 100% CPU while speaking text.
Another option would be to use UI scripting to change between two voices:
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Changing the SelectedVoiceID key in com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist also works, but I don't know how to apply the changes immediately.
LriLriThank you very much Lauryi.
I have extended your UI scripting approach to work properly with german and english voices.The problem is, when your system language is not english, all non system languages are hidden (if not currently selected). You have to select: show more voices.. first to get to the desired language. My code lack a bit of elegance, but works. Here it is (updated):
Direct changes to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist are not really needed if you get the bash-script Voices which really adds all the command-line functionality you need.
An Apple Script to change the standard voice to Alex using Voices would simply look like this:
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I do prefer the terminal, and instead of testing the polyglot menu-bar intrusion, I made this (admittedly simple-stupid) shell script (which uses voices) for my language-switching needs. With it, All I do to change the default language is to pop into the terminal to type speak swedish or speak french. This fits excellently into my workflow. I hope you can find a solution that fits yours.
I save it to my scripts as 'speak.command', chmod it +x, and add the appropriate alias to my .bash_profile to evoke it by typing speak.
I Wrote a Status Bar Tool for that:
Apperantly it still works in Sierra
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