Working with artificial dialog is easier than ever before!Ĭonvert to Speech AIFF is a system Service (gear icon) available in any application that supports text input, including FCPX.Īs a service, this functionality is greatly expanded to any application that supports text input. Learning to adjust the playback speed in Final Cut will help improve enunciations, articulation, emphasis, etc. It is recommended that you also set up how you want these voices to “read” your script text (adjust their speeds) before using this droplet (it makes a difference!).

Check out the Voices menu and select Customize. There is an option to expand the voice choices in System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech. Pick your voice (English has 4 default speakers: Alex, Fred, Samantha and Victoria). Simply type your script in Text Edit and save the file. Text to Audio should work with any language supported by the Accessibility (text to) Speech feature of Mac OS! This droplet will save you from having to “record” your mac reading text. Weighing in at 2.1MB, this is a very small application. You can store it anywhere and maintain duplicates in various places. Text to Audio is an Automator droplet style application.

Free software to convert text to audio