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With macOS you can create voiceovers directly from the command line. Create a text file and use comma’s, full stops and delays. It requires a bit of experimenting with words, structure and grammar to get the best result. It could be something like this:

Hello [[slnc 300]] and welcome to [[slnc 300]] VPN Monitor.
[[slnc 400]]]
This utility, will keep an eye, on your VPN connection.
[[slnc 300]]
As soon as the connection drops, it will reconnect.
[[slnc 400]]
In standby mode, it will connect the VPN, when it detects an insecure network.
[[slnc 300]]
To start, click the icon on the status bar.
[[slnc 300]]
When you already have VPN services configured, simply click: connect.
[[slnc 300]]
Once connected, VPN Monitor ensures you stay connected.

To create the voiceover use the ‘say’ command in terminal. There are multiple voices & accents available, under system configuration -> accessibility -> voiceover -> voiceover utility, you can find and download all voices. You need to try a few voices to see which one best matches your text. To convert your text to a voiceover audio file use:

say -v Karen -f speak.txt -o voiceover.aiff

To play the audio file from the command line use:

afplay voiceover.aiff 

The output file in aiff (a high quality audio file) is directly usable in iMovie.

To get the exact length of the audiofile use:

afinfo voiceover.aiff 

To end result would be something like this:

★ voiceover.aiff_.zip  ★