RE: TextAloud scripts
- From: "Maria Kristic" <maria6289@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:48:50 -0500
First off, you verify the title of your article BEFORE beginning the
conversion process (i.e., before activating the Speak > Speak Current
Article to File option). Therefore, after opening the file which you wish to
convert, SHIFT+TAB once from the text window displaying your document, and
you'll land on the Title field; the audio file will be named using the text
in the Title edit field, so ensure that it contains your desired file name
(this may be why you are not seeing a converted file in your desired output
directory, as the name should not be changed during conversion). If you want
to verify/change the voice being used for that file, SHIFT+TAB again, and
you'll land in the combo box of voices available (as determined under
Options > Voices and File Options/Voices tab), so you can use your UP/DOWN
ARROW keys to change that if desired as well. Also, in case you haven't
already, you want to verify your audio file settings under Options > Voices
and File Options/File Options tab before converting. In any case, once
you've verified the title, voice, and/or audio settings, invoke the Speak >
Speak Current Article to File command as you've been doing, and confirm the
output directory of the audio file as you've been doing. Once you've hit the
OK button to confirm the output directory, the conversion process begins; in
other words, there's nothing left to hit OK on, and you've already verified
the name of the file (that Title field is always present in the main
TextAloud window when a file is open), so it's just a matter of waiting for
the conversion to finish. As for obtaining progress information during
conversion, use JAWSKey+PageDown to read the status bar; as conversion is
taking place, it will display that this is Article 1 of 1, the title of the
article, and the amount of information (in megabytes) which has been written
to the file, but once conversion has finished, the status bar will only
display "1 article", so you will know it has completed, at which point you
should be able to find the file in your selected output directory.
Conversion may take a while for each book, as each file might be a few
hundred MB in size, depending on your audio settings. BTW, if you have many
files you want to convert, you might want to use the File > Batch File
Converter option as an alternative to converting them one by one; if you saw
my previous post on TextAloud, where I mentioned a manual (select Help >
Online Manual from the main TextAloud window, and select your preferred
format from the page which loads to access it), that manual gives details
about the Batch File Converter and practically all other aspects of the
program, as does the Online Help system of TextAloud (either hit F1 or
select Help > Contents from the main TextAloud window to access it; Batch
File Converter is a topic under the Advanced Topics book), so you might also
find those helpful as a new user. Let me know if any of this wasn't clear.
HTH,
Maria
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Hank & Patty
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 12:36 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TextAloud scripts
Hello Leslie
Thanks for the reply e-mail. It appears you seem to use TextAloud fairly
often to convert text files to mp3 files, so I really hope you can give me
some helpful suggestions for the following big problem I'm having in
TextAloud with jfw7 when I try to convert a text file to a mp3 file using
the speak to file menu selection.
With the text file open on the screen in TextAloud that I want to convert,
after I hit enter on
speak to file on the speak menu to instruct TextAloud that I want to convert
this file to mp3, I then tab backwards and forward and see the edit box
where
you confirm the folder in which you want to put this converted mp3 file, so
I do this . Then I tab and all that is there, other than the edit box for
the correct folder, there is just an okay button so I hit enter on the okay
button.
Next I tab backwards and forwards and finally land on the edit box in which
you enter the filename that you want to call this newly created
converted mp3 file, so I enter a filename. Next I tab and and all that I
see is the slider
adjustment button for I believe it is volume. Next I tab again and there is
nothing, no more buttons to land on. So then I also tab backwards with
shift tab looking for an okay button to start the converting process, but
there is no okay button, I can only go back to the edit box where you enter
the filename, you cannot go
backwards any further than the filename edit box.
So this is where I'm really stuck, how do you start the converting process
after you have enter the filename that you want to call it? Where is the
okay button to tell TextAloud to start the converting process? or is there
an okay button or do I need to look for another button to hit enter on to
start the conversion process to a newly created mp3 file? If you can please
help me out with this, I would be so much appreciative. I really hope you
can help me out with this as I have a bunch of books on my computer in text
format that I really want to start converting to a newly created mp3 file
for each of the books, so I can listen to them using the voice Mike or
Crystal on my mp3 player. Thanks very much in advance if you are able to
help me out. I'm using jfw7 and have 512 mags of ram.
Frustrated TextAloud user
Hank Merchant Jr.
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