Record screen cast with text to speech engine on Mac OS
How to record screencast with text to speech on Mac
Hi everyone.
In this video, I am going to show you how to record a screencast on Mac without using your own voice.
Things you will need
Mac
QuickTime player
Soundflower
TextEditer
Some editor does not support Text to Speech very well. Like sublime editor.
TextEdit came with Mac works fine.
And the Transcript
Preparation
Download and Install Soundflower
We are going to use Mac text to speech engine to read the transcript for us, but Mac OS does not allow you to record the system sound by default. This requires using addons like Soundflower to redirect the system sound to another input source.
Setup audio MIDI mixer
Allows you to output system sound to both Soundflower and any other outputs. Like your speaker. To ensure you can hear the text to speech sound, you have to do this step, otherwise, the system sound will only flow to Soundflower.
Enable text to speech in Mac
Make sure you enable the shortcut
Let's record a screencast
Make sure your audio output is set to Multi-Ouput device you create with audio MIDI mixer.
Start QuickTime player.
Click the down arrow icon next to the record button. Make sure the audio input is set to Soundflower.
Now you are ready to go.
Open your transcript with you text editor. Select the text you want to read, just press the text to speech shortcut. Here you go.
Thanks for watching.
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