How to use automator to convert text to audio file

I have a MS Word file which I would like to convert to an audio file using the text to audio file script available in automator. Forgive my ignorance but I am having difficulty in finding how to do this.
Can anyone give me a step by step approach.
Thanks
Alain

One way:
1. Get Selected Finder Items
2. Open Finder Items
--Open with: TextEdit
3. Get Contents of TextEdit Document
4. Text to Audio File

Similar Messages

HOW TO USE OGR2OGR TO CONVERT DGN INTO SHAPE FILES WITH MSLINK

hi Friends...
i had a requirement to convert the dgn file into shape files with its mslink and entity number. can any body give guidelines .........pls
Rajanikanthc

Bentley Map will do this for you.
Open the DGN, connect to the database for the attribute
Export->GIS Datatype,
pick export, right click, new export
pick directory if you have mulitple level
pick export, right click and export

How to use runtime.exe to activate the native file coping commands

How to use runtime.exe to activate the native file coping commands.(It might include using process(), and such.. but how?

Why would you want to do this? It's harder than copying the file in Java (by reading the file and writing it to a new file) and you'll need to write new code each time you want to port your code to a new OS.

How do I change the length of an audio file?

How do I change the length of an audio file without changing the actual recording?
I want to aligne start and end points to the rest of my project.

Well, yes and no. I have tried the Bounce track in place function, but it did not do what I was after. However, today I got an idea that solved the problem. I copied the region I had punched in several times. Then I used the Bounce track in place function. This made a track that was just as long as all the other tracks. Finally I silenced the audio "clips" that I had used to make the region longer. I have now 24 tracks to transfer to the Alesis HD 24 that starts, and ends, at the exact same point. This will suit the Alesis software just fine, I think.
Thanks for the tips.

How do I put a song as an audio file (mp3, mp4 etc) onto iTunes for sale

How do I put a song as an audio file (mp3, mp4 etc) onto iTunes for sale

Check with CD Baby - they have an agreement with Apple to get indie music on iTunes for sale.

Cannot use the Send to Soundtrack Pro Audio File Command

I cannot use the Send to Soundtrack Pro Audio File Command, only the Multitrack and it's starting to really get on my nerves. It is unhiglighted. If I unlink the clip and select only half of the audio, the option re-appears. I have no idea what is wrong.

As an audio file, you can only send one clip at a time. This is a feature, not a bug. See the book for more information.
Russ

How to use Automator to batch convert xls/xlsx files into tab OR pipe delimited text file.

If you have answer, please provide specific and detailed steps.
Situation 1:
Start:
150+ files in .xls OR .xlsx format
data contains many characters EXCEPT "Tab"
Process:
Use Automator to:
Select Files from Finder window
Convert selected files from xls/xlsx to TAB-DELIMITED file format
End:
150+ files in .txt format
files have identical names to those from "Start:"
data is TAB-DELIMITED
Situation 2:
Start:
150+ files in .xls OR .xlsx format
data contains many characters EXCEPT | (pipe, vertical bar)
Process:
Use Automator to:
Select Files from Finder window
Convert selected files from xls/xlsx to |-delimited file format
End:
150+ files in .txt format
files have identical names to those from "Start:"
data is "|"-delimited

If your post is addressed to my response then the answer is you have to write your own or search on-line to see if something exists to do what you want.
As you note there is no pre-built script for this.
regards
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - Are you certain there isn;t something in Excel to export as a tab delimited file?
This link Convert An Excel Spreadsheet To A Tab Delimited Text File seems to indicate that the function is in Excel already.

How to use automator to extract specific text from json txt file

I'm trying to set up an Automator folder action to extract certain data from json files. I'm pulling metadata from YouTube videos, and I want to extract the Title of the video, the URL for the video, and the date uploaded.
Sample json data excerpts:
"upload_date": "20130319"
"title": "[title of varying length]"
"webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video id]"
Based on this thread, seems I should be able to have Automator (or any means of using a shell script) find data and extract it into a .txt file, which I can then open as a space delimited file in Excel or Numbers. That answer assumes a static number of digits for the text to be extracted, though. Is there a way Automator can search through the json file and extract the text - however long - after "title" and "webpage_url"?
json files are all in the same folder, and all end in .info.json.
Any help greatly appreciated!

Hello
You might try the following perl script, which will process every *.json file in current directory and yield out.csv.
* CSV currently uses space for field separator as you requested. Note that Numbers.app cannot import such CSV file correctly.
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/perl -CSDA -w <<'EOF' - *.json > out.csv
use strict;
use JSON::Syck;
$JSON::Syck::ImplicitUnicode = 1;
# json node paths to extract
my @paths = ('/upload_date', '/title', '/webpage_url');
for (@ARGV) {
    my $json;
    open(IN, "<", $_) or die "$!";
        local $/;
        $json = <IN>;
    close IN;
    my $data = JSON::Syck::Load($json) or next;
    my @values = map { &json_node_at_path($data, $_) } @paths;
        #   output CSV spec
        #   - field separator = SPACE
        #   - record separator = LF
        #   - every field is quoted
        local $, = qq( );
        local $\ = qq(\n);
        print map { s/"/""/og; q(").$_.q("); } @values;
sub json_node_at_path ($$) {
    #   $ : (reference) json object
    #   $ : (string) node path
    #   E.g. Given node path = '/abc/0/def', it returns either
    #       $obj->{'abc'}->[0]->{'def'}   if $obj->{'abc'} is ARRAY; or
    #       $obj->{'abc'}->{'0'}->{'def'} if $obj->{'abc'} is HASH.
    my ($obj, $path) = @_;
    my $r = $obj;
    for ( map { /(^.+$)/ } split /\//, $path ) {
        if ( /^[0-9]+$/ && ref($r) eq 'ARRAY' ) {
            $r = $r->[$_];
        else {
            $r = $r->{$_};
    return $r;
EOF
For Automator workflow, you may use Run Shell Script action as follows, which will receive json files and yield out_YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS.csv on desktop.
Run Shell Script action
    - Shell = /bin/bash
    - Pass input = as arguments
    - Code = as follows
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/perl -CSDA -w <<'EOF' - "$@" > ~/Desktop/out_"$(date '+%F_%H%M%S')".csv
use strict;
use JSON::Syck;
$JSON::Syck::ImplicitUnicode = 1;
# json node paths to extract
my @paths = ('/upload_date', '/title', '/webpage_url');
for (@ARGV) {
    my $json;
    open(IN, "<", $_) or die "$!";
        local $/;
        $json = <IN>;
    close IN;
    my $data = JSON::Syck::Load($json) or next;
    my @values = map { &json_node_at_path($data, $_) } @paths;
        #   output CSV spec
        #   - field separator = SPACE
        #   - record separator = LF
        #   - every field is quoted
        local $, = qq( );
        local $\ = qq(\n);
        print map { s/"/""/og; q(").$_.q("); } @values;
sub json_node_at_path ($$) {
    #   $ : (reference) json object
    #   $ : (string) node path
    #   E.g. Given node path = '/abc/0/def', it returns either
    #       $obj->{'abc'}->[0]->{'def'}   if $obj->{'abc'} is ARRAY; or
    #       $obj->{'abc'}->{'0'}->{'def'} if $obj->{'abc'} is HASH.
    my ($obj, $path) = @_;
    my $r = $obj;
    for ( map { /(^.+$)/ } split /\//, $path ) {
        if ( /^[0-9]+$/ && ref($r) eq 'ARRAY' ) {
            $r = $r->[$_];
        else {
            $r = $r->{$_};
    return $r;
EOF
Tested under OS X 10.6.8.
Hope this may help,
H

Using automator to edit text - find and replace

Hello. I have a huge database of tv repair tips. Unfortunately, when i started to accumulate the tips I put them in an html table like this:
<tr>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">TELEVISION </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">SONY </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">36XBR400 </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">DEAD - NO H.V. - INTERMITTENT START UP - 'D Board' NG. </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">IC6501, MCZ3001D 0r MCZ3001DB(8-759-670-30) - >>>HARD TO REPLACE!---tip:CUT PINS FROM TOP THEN PULL OUT SLOWLY </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">TELEVISION </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">SONY </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">63A </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">INSUFFICIENT HEIGHT </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">CHECK C522 REPLACE IF PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OPEN </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">TELEVISION </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">SONY </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">AA-2 </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">Int. loss of pix (HV) after 10 Min. Audio Normal.Pwr up again & OK for 10Min </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">H Protect Circuit. D521 (7.5 zener) ECG5015 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">TELEVISION </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">SONY </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">AA-2D </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">VERTICAL HEIGHT PROBLEM </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">BAD YOKE: BAD YOKE WINDINGS MEASURED 6 OHMS, SHOULD BE CLOSE TO 9 OHMS </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">TELEVISION </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">SONY </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">AA-2W </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">Negative main pix, pip video ok. Customer heard pop then pix went dark. </td>
<td class="NoiseDataTD">IC355. CSA2131S </td>
</tr>
Now, I want to input the tips into a MySQL database with an insert statement like:
INSERT INTO `otips` (`id`, `brand`, `model`, `problem`, `solution`, `user`, `date`) VALUES (NULL, UCASE('SONY'), UCASE('KP-53XBR200'), UCASE('CONVERGENCE OFF'), UCASE('REPLACED CONVERGENCE IC''S STK392-020 AND PICO FUSE PS5007 3.15 AMP open'), '0', '0000-00-00');
I've been all over the help files and different websites with tutorials and I cannot figure out how to do this using automator. Could anyone tell me if this can be done with automator and perhaps point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
daniel
IMac Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Are you familliar with regular expressions? If you are, then you can create a shell script and incorporate it into your workflow. Or you could use bbedit or textwrangler from barebones.com to search and replace in multiple files.

How to use WebRowSet to convert to XML??

Dear all,
I have a ResultSet, but I how can I use WebRowSet to convert it to XML?
Greatly appreciated if anybody can giveme a clue.
Thank you
Kevin

Hi,
see http://fork.ru/tutor/developer/rowset-docs/sun/jdbc/rowset/WebRowSet.html
It's the javadoc of the Class WebRowSet
intressting method for you are :
- setXmlWriter(XmlWriter writer); / writeXml(java.io.Writer writer)
or
- writeXml(java.sql.ResultSet rs, java.io.Writer writer)
Hope that it can help you.
S�b

Can I use automator to type text?

I am looking for a way to fill in my email address in various types of online forms by using a shortcut. Can I use automator to insert an email address? If so, how? Is there a better way to do this, like an autocomple function? I am tired of typing my rather long email address everytime I need to insert it somewhere.

Hello Pierre L.
The bundle identifier is safer than name because application's executable name is not necessarily equal to the package name minus extension. E.g. Firefox.app => firefox.
--SCRIPT
tell application "System Events" to get bundle identifier of process 1 whose frontmost is true
tell application id result to activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "hello"
--END OF SCRIPT
The code works fine under 10.5.8 as well.
I guess the compatibility issue is due to the different implementations of Script menu and the different behaviours of AppleScript Runner (post-10.5) or System Events (pre-10.5) per OSes.
All the best,
H
P.S. The script below (saved as application bundle) works fine under 10.4.11.
--SCRIPT 2
    Save this as application bundle or application
    and invoke it from Script menu
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
    tell (process 1 whose frontmost is true) to set visible to false
end tell
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
    tell (process 1 whose frontmost is true) to keystroke "hello"
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT 2
/H

How To Use Automation?

I was drawn to Garabeband '08 due to the automation feature. However, I can't figure out how to use it. I would like to add effects at certain points of the tracks. When I choose automation, I'll pick Vis EQ (for example) and then press o.k., but then nothing happens... or at least I'm not figuring it out. I was thinking you could "throw in" effects by creating and shifting/dragging the nodes (like in "volume" and "pan"). Please help.

Go to the automation control, where you used to be able to pick "Volume" or "Pan", and click the new option "Add Effect". You'll be able to select every effect that your track has. Make sure you get to the point where you acutally get a checkbox for that effect!

How to use automator to duplicate files into separate folder?

i am running the latest version of Yosemite just to clarify.
My question is, is it possible to use automator to automatically copy a file thats added to a folder to a separate folder?
to clarify, i have a drive account that has all my university work stored in a folder called university, i also have a folder on my HD called university.
When i work on something i open it from the university folder on my HD, and when im done working i have to copy the file manually into the drive folder.
Is there any way that i can use automator to detect when a file gets saved in a folder on my hard drive and automatically copy it to my drive folder?

Hello,
I really don't have much of an idea, but since no one has replied yet, I'll offer this...
I wonder if it's a matter of having to clear browser caches & reloading the page?

(Bash) How to set a variable with text from a file? [SOLVED]

I'm having a little problem.
I have textfile with a single line of text. What I want to do is set a variable with that line of text. How do I go about doing that?
A simple var="text" wont work in this case, since the text in the file changes with another script of mine.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Aziere (2007-03-27 09:07:03)

if you have a file with more than one line but you only want the first line you could use 'head'
VAR=`head -n 1 file`
Last edited by SiD (2007-03-27 05:58:33)

How do i convert to acc audio files

How do i convert to acc audio files

Hello Red Teddy,
The following article contains steps for converting content from one format to another.
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550
To convert a song's file format:
Open iTunes Preferences.
Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
Click the General button, then click the Importing Settings button in the second section of the window.
From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the settings.
Select one or more songs in your library, then from the Advanced menu, choose one of the following (The menu item changes to show what's selected in your Importing preferences):
Create MP3 version
Create AAC version
Create AIFF version
Create WAV version
Create Apple Lossless version
If you haven't imported some songs into iTunes yet, you can import and convert them at the same time. This will create a converted copy of the file in your iTunes Library based on your iTunes preferences. To convert all the songs in a folder or on a disk, hold down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows) and choose Advanced > ConvertImport preference setting. The Import preference setting will match what you chose in step 3. iTunes will prompt you for the location of the folder or disk you want to import and convert. All the songs in the folder or on the disk will be converted. Note: Some purchased songs are encoded using a protected AAC format that prevents them from being converted. iTunes Plus purchases are not protected and can be converted.
The song in its original format and the newly converted song appear in your library.
Cheers,
Allen

How to use automator to convert text to audio file

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for