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[writing] Being less of a chicken about the Sunspin readaloud
Apparently I am coming to grips with the reading aloud question [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Yesterday I put in several hours on Calamity of So Long a Life with GhostReader, which seems to process about 45 pages per hour through its text-to-speech engine, working at a pace that I can track along with in the manuscript file.
This is both interesting and a little frustrating. I do suspect if I were reading it myself, I’d catch a few more things, but GhostReader is still helping me a lot. The flat, 1990s style computer voice borders on the distracting, and it’s not optimized for manuscript format, so scene breaks are handled a bit strangely. Still, this has gotten me past my logjam. I reckon another 12-13 hours of work to make it all the way through with GhostReader, then another few hours to clean up things as noted. Plus I need to process a couple of more sets of last-first reader feedback.
Still on track for the month end, and maybe a little earlier.
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Posted: 6:32 am Mon February 20 2012 |
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Other than the export as an MP3, is it better than the built in text to speech the Mac OS has?
Haven’t managed to figure out how to get the Mac OS to read me a Word file…