converting text files to sound files

[Sina Bahram]

You can do this with eflite...you just do:

eflite filename.txt filename.wav

Take care,
Sina

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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:51 PM
To: speakup
Subject: converting text files to sound files


I think this has been discussed before and nobody really came up with a
solution, but thought I'd put it out anyway. I have .txt files which I'd
love to turn into ogg files so I could listen to them with something like
zinf when I'm not at the computer; that allows me to pause and go backward
and forward, etc. I searched google and, while I found some textfile to
speech programs in Microsoft windows, I regret to say i didn't find anything
like that in linux. I have festival working on my computer; I heard there is
a way to make a .wav file with festival but haven't looked into that yet.
also, with my sblive, I can use loopback recording, have festival read the
file and have it recorded as it is read--time-consuming but still possible.
but, besides this being time-consuming, I don't really find festival's
speech yet to be something I want to record a bunch of files in. However, as
the only option, I could do it. I can also read the text files with speakup
using my doubletalk lt, whose speech I frankly like better than festival's,
maybe because I'm used to it. However, this would again be time-consuming,
having to listen to the whole file. besides, I'm not sure it's possible. I
don't see any way to actually record my doubletalk lt reading except by
putting a microphone in front of it, which would pick up other noise as
well. And there's no way to put it through my soundcard instead to use
loopback recording. finally, I couldn't get a continuous read because with
my doubletalk lt eventually the buffer gets full (i think that's the
explanation) and doubletalk quits reading; nobody wants a recording done
with "more". so probably using my doubletalk lt is out unless somebody knows
something I don't about it--that would be great! Has anybody found a good
solution for this problem or does anybody know of a tool for this that I am
missing? It would really be nicer to be able to convert the text file at
least to a wav file without having to sit and listen to the whole thing to
do it; I don't mind the subsequent conversion to ogg as that's easy. If
festival is the only way to go with this, has anybody tried this and is
there a shortcut to doing it instead of listening to the file? Thanks.


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


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