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In Loopback you can define software sources to go into the new virtual device. This time I did something more than making it a pass through device. Back over in Loopback I created another virtual device called HOA Input. We want people watching to hear me and fake Allison, but I can’t just use Pass-thru because they also want to hear any playback I do on Amadeus Pro. Inside it, I have to set up my Input source so that Steve (who is the only participant) and the viewers can hear everything.

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Now the Pass-Thru virtual device will include both my voice, and any system audio including fake Allison.īack on Amadeus Pro, I can change the input to Pass-Thru and Amadeus Pro can hear me AND fake Allison. In Audio Hijack, I use the little building bricks to create input sources for my mic and System Audio and I pipe the two of them into the output device we created called Pass-Thru. Audio Hijack allows you to pipe multiple audio input sources together and send them to multiple audio outputs. This is where Audio Hijack comes into play. This is very similar to the one I created for System Audio. Rogue Amoeba suggests one called simply, Pass-Thru. We need to create another virtual source in Loopback. In addition, I can’t hear her, and neither can the live audience.

Amadeus Pro can hear her, but it can’t hear the real Allison. Even though this works, it only fulfills one requirement. Over on Amadeus Pro, instead of selecting my mic as the input, I could select System Audio and when the other Allison talks, Amadeus Pro could hear her. Ok, so all system sounds will come out of the virtual System Audio. In fact, as we found out during the show, it also means everyone could hear my TextExpander snippets expanding until I turned them off!

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That means that anything that uses System Audio as an input will be able to hear any sounds generated by the Mac operating system. Then on the Mac, in the Sound Preferences I set the output from the Mac to go to this newly created System Audio.

In Loopback I created a source named, quite imaginatively, System Audio. The system audio can come out of the speakers, or headphones, OR it can be assigned to a virtual source in Loopback. But Text to Speech Allison isn’t a microphone, she’s coming from the Mac’s system audio. Applications like Amadeus Pro or GarageBand or even a Hangout on Air require an audio input and under normal circumstances you would simply select your microphone. Loopback from Rogue Amoeba was designed to allow us to create virtual audio sources. So that sounds easy, right? I’ve been doing all of these things for quite a while now, but the tricky bit was getting Text to Speech Allison into the mix.

And finally, the audio needs to be recorded into my recording software, Amadeus Pro.

Some people listen on Alpha Geek Radio or the iOS NosillaCast app.

There’s the Google Hangout on Air which is audio and video.

When I do the live show, there are three ways people will consume what I’m creating, both live and recorded. I thought it would be fun to walk you through how all of these pieces worked together to make the show a success in the end.īut first, the problem or problems to be solved. In addition to the built-in text to speech capabilities of OS X, I used Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack to hijack some of the audio pieces, and a new product also from Rogue Amoeba called Loopback.

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That wasn’t actually the hard part though, it was figuring out how to get the Text to Speech version of Allison to be heard by all of the audiences. In System Prefs you can also add a keystroke to invoke it, and you can add higher quality voices, one of which happens to be called Allison. You can simply select a section of text in any application on your Mac, and in the menu of the application choose Edit, Speech, Start Speaking. If you haven’t messed around with it, it’s really quite extraordinary. I started with the built-in Text to Speech capabilities of OS X. It’s pretty complicated how all this works, and now I had no voice to make things just that much harder. Luckily I had pre-recorded bits for the majority of the show, but how was I to make sure that the non-recorded bits were at least listenable? And remember that not only do I do the recorded show for the audio listeners, but there’s also the live show that’s broadcast on YouTube as a Hangout on Air and from there broadcast in audio and video to Alpha Geek Media, and the audio is piped to the NosillaCast app. Not sure why it happens, seems to be more allergies than a sickness because I felt fine.Īnyway, since I’ve been doing the show non-stop for over a decade, I knew I couldn’t NOT have the show. I get laryngitis periodically, ever since I was a little girl. I started losing my voice on Friday and by Sunday I could barely squeak out a sentence. I’m not sure you noticed on last week’s show, but the audio was just a little bit “different”.