Text to podcast?

[eclipse]

Hi all,
just wondering if there are any new ways of simply dragging a text file into some software and having that convert it into a podcast I can read? Odiogo.com does it for blogger, but I don't want to have to paste all my text-to-podcast into a blog podcast thing which might be listened to by the world. Any ideas?

 

[deej999]

Hi eclipse,

"dragging a text file into some software and having that convert it into a podcast I can read?"

Do you mean "listen to"?

Then copy and paste the text into a text edit file, and select all text, go : Text Edit > Services > Speech > Start Speak text

You can use Audio Hijack Pro or Wire tap studio to record the speech to an audio file. Then take that audio into your podcast app.

deej

 

[eclipse]

Is there a way to have it speak from text edit into a podcast in Garageband?

 

[sammich]

I'm not in front of my mac atm, but I know there is a thing in automator that takes a text file and will output an audio file for you, read out in the voice you want.

I remember using it to try and memorise my essay back in high school, by listening to it on my iPod while I was sleeping, on repeat.