Now the Terminal commands for this are pretty simple. Instead we're going to do this using Terminal. So I'm not going to spend any more time on this. We have a better method to do this anyway. It will actually be imported into the Music app. You can name it and then select where you want to save it to although it's kind of odd because no matter what you select depending upon your Music app and how you have it set the file won't be around for long. You can select the voice you want to use and preview the voice. Select that and you have this whole interface here. Don't worry if you don't see it for some reason because I'm going to show you a better method in a minute. But you should see one called Add to Music as Spoken Track. If you do the same thing, Control clicking on it, but go to Services you'll see a variety of things here depending upon any Quick Actions you've added on your Mac. Well, it turns out you could do this pretty easily as well. I can just select some text and then if I Control click on it, two finger click on the trackpad and a right click on the Mouse, I could choose Speech and have my Mac speak the text. So I created a text file called Video Narration. The first thing you want to do is have everything in a text file. However it's pretty simple to create one outside of iMovie and bring it in.

It would be great if iMovie just had a function for that but it doesn't. But the idea is instead of using your own voice in this interface here to be able to have a computer generated voice. Now normally if you wanted to include narration in iMovie you could go to the point where you want to start, you would click this voiceover button here and then you could select the microphone and hit Record and then record the voiceover. Anything that you could bring into iMovie you can then use this technique to place a computer generated voiceover on the video. Now as an example here I'm just going to put a few clips in iMovie. You certainly see plenty of You Tube videos that do this. If you don't have somebody else handy that can record the narration using a computer generated voice from your Mac could be a good alternative. But not everybody wants to use their own voice for narration.

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Today I'm going to show you how to create a computer generated text-to-speech voiceover for a video. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Add Text-To-Speech Voiceovers To Videos at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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