SpokenText blog

Adding a pause to your recording

Mark McKay — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:58:02 +0000

If you want to add a pause add into your text.

Example: What is 3 + 3 6

Or you can use to add a 3 second break.

Example: What is 3 + 3 6

Mark

Chrome Extension for SpokenText.net now available

Mark McKay — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:36:36 +0000

We are proud to announce that our free Google Chrome extension is now available in the Google Chrome Extension Galary.

Check it out at SpokenText for Chrome

The extension makes it easy to record any text you find on a web page or full web pages, with just a few clicks of your mouse.

Watch the YouTube video to learn more about how to setup the extension and use it to record text.

And if you like the extension please rate it and post a comment on our Chrome Extension page.

Mark

Create a dialog between voices

Mark McKay — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:49:19 +0000

Want to create a dialog between two different voices talking. Maybe to hear your screen play or novel read to you?

Here is how you can do it:

Wrap the text you want in a different voice as follows.

For example:

Where do you want to eat tonight?

<voice gender=”female”> Let’s go for pizza </voice>

Listen to it

For this test I set my default voice in the list provided on the New Recordings tab to
Mike

This way you only have to put the tags around one of the talkers and not both.

Mark

Interview with The LiVE 88.5 Start Up playing this week

Mark McKay — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:43:41 +0000

I have not heard it yet on The LiVE 88.5 Start Up. I keep missing it. Life is very busy in the mornings when you have three little kids to get ready

But form what I have heard it came out well.

Mark

Audio Book and Multiple MP3 formats now optional.

Mark McKay — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:14:33 +0000

We have made the Audio Book and Multiple MP3 formats optional for all paid accounts.

This way only the people who need them can ask to have them created by checking either the “Create Audio Book file” or “Create multiple mp3 file” options at the bottom of the New Recordings page.

This should speed up conversion times for everyone.

Happy recording

Mark

Cleaning up look of New Recordings page

Mark McKay — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:08:50 +0000

Just cleaned up the Options at the bottom of the New Recordings page. They are now check boxes. The old way was getting to long.

Hopefully everyone will like the new approach.

Mark

Interview with The LiVE 88.5 Start Up

Mark McKay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:50:23 +0000

I did an interview today with Katfish and Dave from the
Live 88.5 Start up. It was a lot of fun and should air in the next few weeks.

Mark

Docx is now supported by SpokenText.net

Mark McKay — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:25:27 +0000

We now support the .docx format which is the default format for MS Word 2007 and 2010.

We support the conversion of .docx files as uploads, attachments to emails and via a URL to an online document.

Mark

New ScreenCast’s Online

Mark McKay — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:03:37 +0000

Finally had some time and have added a bunch of new screencasts of how to use SpokenText.net and have also setup a SpokenText YouTube Channel where you can see them all in one place.

Please check them out and let me know what you think. Also if you would like me to create a screencast on a specific topic let me know.

Mark

Record email is new and improved.

Mark McKay — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:45:38 +0000

Our record email and email attachment(s) feature is new and improved. It was completely rewritten and improved in the process.

You can now record multiple attachments and if you have a paid account it will use your default settings for voice, words per minute and volume to record your email or attachment.

The returning email was tweaked to make it iPhone and iPod Touch friendly so you can easily listen to a recording directly in your iPhone and iPod Touch’s mail application.

To see your SpokenText email address sign in to your account and click the My Account page link at the top left of the screen.

Mark