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Lab Notes #006
Speaker Check
These files are designed to be played to one speaker at a time, sequentially checking every speaker or audio zone in the rig.
revised 6/2024: increased count of some categories to 16
revised 4/2026: added bulk download .zip of 1.wav through 24.wav
Example Usage
Applescript to generate these files
-- Speaker / zone names to generate files for
set names to {¬
"Main", "Main Left", "Main Right", "Center", ¬
"Surround", "Effect", "Sub", "Delay", ¬
"Fill", "Rear", "Sound Object", "Balcony", ¬
"Monitor", "Lobby"}
set outputFolder to choose folder
-- For each name: one bare file + 16 numbered variants
repeat with name in names
set outputFile to (outputFolder as string) & name & ".wav"
say name saving to outputFile
set x to 1
repeat 16 times
set outputFile to (outputFolder as string) & name & " " & x & ".wav"
say (name & " " & x) saving to outputFile
set x to x + 1
end repeat
end repeat
-- Numbered files 1.wav … 24.wav at a slower speaking rate
set x to 1
repeat 24 times
set outputFile to (outputFolder as string) & x & ".wav"
say (x) speaking rate 120 saving to outputFile
set x to x + 1
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