Use voice over speech as text-to-speech

Hello,
I really like Mac OS X Lion's option to download new high-quality speech voices, and I have made a habit of listening to my e-books by enabling the "option + esc" in speech preferences as a shortcut to read highlighted text.
However, any unfamiliar words are read incorrectly, I have no way to modify a "pronounciation" list like you can in voice-over utility (speech -> pronounciation). This is a huge inconvenience as I can create a proper dictionary there for pronouncing things correctly, but with text-to-speech I cannot. Anyone know if there's a way to tap into this pronounciation dictionary? If you think this is worthwhile feature you should post here anyway, maybe Apple will take note
Regards,
Denis

You can wait unless the problem you have is stopping you from completing the job. In that case...
You can do this anytime. Connect the new drive and change the scratch drive preferences in SYSTEM SETTINGS. Do not create folders, simply select the root of the drive you wish to use. Once you have done so for both the Capture Scratch and Render files, FCP will create project specific folders on the new drive. Save the project and close FCP. You will then have to copy the elements from the old scratch drive to the appropriate folders on the new drive. Launch FCP, open your project and then reconnect the media in your project, directing it to the new drive. FCP will likely not connect to the render files once they have been moved so you may have to re-render your sequence.
Before you do any of that, you might try trashing FCP Preferences first to see if that fixes the problem and allows you to finish the job.
rh
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