How do I...

[anarky]

...easily record the audio of talking text on a Macintosh?

I've got a simulation of Stephen Hawking rapping "Baby Got Back," and it's golden.

[Diabolical]

I use Audacity to record streaming music, but it saves as a wav file, so I then use another program to convert it to an mp3.

[anarky]

Hmmm.... I was hoping Macintosh might have a simple solution built into the OS. They seem to have just about everything else.

[anarky]

Found this on a forum somewhere, and am posting it here for reference.

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What operating systems do you use? On Mac OS X you could use the following steps (assuming you have a copy of Word, but don't have LAME installed):

   1. Save the Word document as a plain text file (for instance, "speech.txt") to the top level of your user directory.
   2. Type the following at the command line: say -f speech.txt -o speech.aif
   3. Drag the file speech.aif into iTunes.
   4. Choose the Preferences menu item in iTunes. Click the Advanced tool, switch to the Importing pane, and make sure you're importing using the MP3 Encoder.
   5. Find the speech file in the iTune music library, select it, and then choose Convert Selection to MP3 from the Advanced menu. A second file named speech will appear in the library.
   6. Using the Get Info menu item in iTune, determine the path to where iTunes has stored the new MP3 version of your speech file.
   7. Copy the new MP3 file to a convenient location.

[anarky]

See if this works. Apparently, long text files can't be converted that way.