Text to Audiobook free script

Even the best sounding Leopard voice isn't up to the task of reading anything like a novel. No emotion, no context recognition, and some words just don't sound right, even when spoking correctly with Leopard's voice to text.

I've been playing with Alex for a while for these kind of tasks, and disappointed so far. Cepstral has some supposedly superior voices for this kind of stuff, but the samples I played with have the same issues, no lack of comprehension of what is being read, which is what is required to not sound like a computer.

When they finally port over the software that some of these big businesses are running on their voicemail systems, we might get some natural sounding voices for audio books created like this, until then the experience will never match a professional reader reading the text to you.

For emails and the like, maybe this is fine, but the expectations are lowered for that. Here's to a future where your emails are read to you in the voice of the person who sent it! ;-0

Yeah, a story without a link to the script isn't terribly useful.

Fortunately, it's easy to find. Alternatively, you can just use Automator, like another poster mentioned.

If you want to make an audiobook from text with synthesized speech, that features multiple voices (for multiple characters in a story or participants in an interview), check out Dejal Narrator 2, which requires Leopard.

http://www.dejal.com/narrator/

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008050623341520&query=audiobook

hmm, can't seem to find the script...

Apparently you guys don't know that there is a built in automator action to do this since 10.4.

I did the same thing (though probably not in quite as slick a fashion). I converted the Constitution of the United States to audio format using Automator. It took an hour or so because I manually copied and pasted each section of each article, and then manually renamed each part, and then manually set some track settings in iTunes, etc.

The end result was approximately 25 audio tracks in iTunes, covering 28 or so minutes, taking up 75.4 MB.