Make Your Own Audio Books

Ingredients:
Directions:
  1. Copy the entire text of the book you want to a text file.
  2. Save it to your desktop as "booktitle.txt" (obviously replacing booktitle with the title of your book).
  3. Bring up a terminal window.
  4. At the prompt type: say -v Vicki -f ~/Desktop/booktitle.txt -o ~/Desktop/booktitle.aiff
  5. Double-click the new sound file on your desktop and enjoy!

For a little variety, you can try some different voices, like Bruce or Junior. Convert a whole slew of them and throw them on to your iPod for on-the-go enlightenment!

  • posted on 5 March 2007
  • by Jesse

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8 March 20071. Shawn Blanc:

It's no James Earl Jones, but I can get the whole Bible on MP3 now.


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  • Jesse saved Shiba Inu Puppy Cam?!?! Is this for real? as a favorite video Jesse saved Shiba Inu Puppy Cam?!?! Is this for real? as a favorite video 2008-11-22T01:00:26Z 2008-11-22T01:00:26Z
  • Jesse said, "Live action version of the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam. http://tinyurl.com/6k4gdx" Jesse said, “Live action version of the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam. http://tinyurl.com/6k4gdx” 2008-11-22T00:39:49Z 2008-11-22T00:39:49Z
  • Jesse said, "@thunderchld » Glad you liked it! Funny thing is I just threw it together one day when I was messing around. :P" Jesse said, “@thunderchld » Glad you liked it! Funny thing is I just threw it together one day when I was messing around. :P” 2008-11-21T23:46:49Z 2008-11-21T23:46:49Z
  • Jesse said, "Correction, it's a 44b ... the same one Bing Crosby is singing into in this pic: http://is.gd/8rts" Jesse said, “Correction, it’s a 44b … the same one Bing Crosby is singing into in this pic: http://is.gd/8rts” 2008-11-21T16:33:22Z 2008-11-21T16:33:22Z
  • Jesse said, "For those curious: I use a silky-smooth 1931 RCA 44a microphone for all of my recording: http://tinyurl.com/5j9s6o" Jesse said, “For those curious: I use a silky-smooth 1931 RCA 44a microphone for all of my recording: http://tinyurl.com/5j9s6o” 2008-11-21T16:31:14Z 2008-11-21T16:31:14Z