converting text files to sound files

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Cheryl.
The Dectalk Software RT has a say program that can play text files, and also
can turn text files in to wav files.
Recently, i been looking at this program to see if I can record my ebooks in
to wav files, and then use lame to make mp3s.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at charter.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:50 PM
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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