warning about using dectalk say program for wave files

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Thanks, for the warning.
I was indeed looking at doing this for taking my ebooks and converting them
to mp3s to be played on an mp3 player for trips.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at charter.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: warning about using dectalk say program for wave files


> Thought I'd pst this since i remember getting one email from somebody else
> wanting to do this.
> I'm finding that the end of wave files done with the say program has some
> garbage characters often and that some of the file, minutes rather than
> seconds is cut off. Short files seem to do ok--three or four minutes--so
> I'm experimenting to see if this is somehow a function of the length. Have
> asked fonix about this along with my other correspondence to them.
> Thought i should mention this; it would be frustrating to think you had a
> book recorded and get to the end and find the end was not there!!!
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>
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