Voicebox 1.4 still a winner
Voicebox is one of those little utilities we all eventually find and then fall in love with. Voicebox just converts text into speech via an .aiff file. But oh how nice it works! It's one simple window with a big text box for typing. It then has a drop down box for choosing one of the many built-in voices for Mac OS X. You can adjust the pitch and speed of the text being spoken as well. Plus it ends up being exported as a simple .aiff file. Perfect. The
shareware version only allows you to have 20 words of text spoken. Of course if you really wanted to you could just keep doing 20 word files and then mixing them together in another program, but I personally think it's worth paying for. Great for electronic artists who want fake robots talking over their songs or for radio. They stopped development it looks like at 1.4, but go check it out and see for yourself!
shareware version only allows you to have 20 words of text spoken. Of course if you really wanted to you could just keep doing 20 word files and then mixing them together in another program, but I personally think it's worth paying for. Great for electronic artists who want fake robots talking over their songs or for radio. They stopped development it looks like at 1.4, but go check it out and see for yourself!











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Subscribe to commentsRyanJul 12th 2005 11:36PM
Seems strange to me that someone would want to pay for the full version of this app, when one could just as easily type "say blah blah blah" in Terminal to have it converted to audio. Check the man page for "say", there's even options for outputting to an audio file (.aiff) or reading from a file, as well as what system voice to use.
Tim O.Jul 13th 2005 1:33PM
Automator will do this also! Just create a workflow to get specified text, then convert it into an AIFF file. You can change the voice, etc. too.
Mathieu PlanteJul 14th 2005 3:10AM
I find links to be over-rated :) http://www.voicebox.com/ is the URL, it's down right now, though.
prozackJul 16th 2005 10:13PM
vince please dont tell me that hackday got havked please email me back