An Idea for Laptops?

[Scott Berry]

Actually Lary it would be very dificult to make a mp3 to text conversion
utility work for synth speech.  Synth speech and text to mp3 are two
totally different animals.  Now if you are speaking of the stuff from
next up there stuff is not a synth at all.  All you do is copy some text
like articles or newspaper stories and then it records it in to mp3.
Plus you have more choices then festival.  You will need to do some
research but there is flite there is also speech dispatcher and there is
one made by Sun as well.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Hart Larry wrote:

> I was wondering if there are any conversion programs in linux which you can
> convert text 2 mp3?  Only versions I've ever seen or run have been in windows.
> Seemingly if there were a linux version, you could maybe configure it as a
> software speech.  I would love to load linux on a laptop, but not the way
> Festival sounds.  I am spoiled by Eliquence.  Thanks in advance for any
> comments or links
> Hart
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