How to build a simple app that turns text to m4a files

Question

I'm learning Chinese and want a way to quickly generate and save words and phrases to m4a files.

I've managed to do pretty much what I want in terminal, but I can't seem to figure out how to make an app out of it. Here is the code I've used in terminal:

cd ~/Desktop/test
say -o "whateveriwantittosay.m4a" "whateveriwantittosay"

How do I make an shell or Apple script that when opened prompts me for whateveriwantittosay, then creates the file? And maybe even asks me again for a new file.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Simple Automator Application :

• Create a new Application
• Add a Ask for text action
• Add a Run a sheel script action
• Select Pass input as Arguments
• Copy the following script (Assuming ~/Desktop/Test exists)

=>

cd ~/Desktop/Test
say -o "$@.m4a" $@

• Save your application. It's ready to use.

Answer 2

i would use python for this... since it is included in the vanilla OSX distibution.

Check wxPython together with pyApp assuming you mean a gui-based app..

Using python you can use subprocess in order to call any terminal command from python eg:

import subprocess
subprocess.call("date")