Last Monday 06 December 2004 08:26, mark@xxxxxxxxx was like: > I have a lot of text documents that I wish to output into speech > audio. Firstly I wanted to know if there is any software that would > allow one to do this. This could be likened to an educational tool > of sorts that reads a file. flite? - I haven't found a way to make it work with Jackd yet. flite is a _very_ basic speech renderer, there are other engines available. > Secondly I was hoping to change the output of audio by the > actual content of the text/html page. The actual reading of text > would be at quite a speed (not necessarily comprehendible) but > in essence the content itself would create the music - according > to an adjustable tempo/spec? Maybe each letter could represent > a music note? > > I am not sure if this makes sense TBH: No it doesn't. Could you explain a bit more? It may be worth looking at CSS2 rules file:///usr/share/doc/w3-recs/RECS/css2/aural.html but I don't know if this is what you're looking for. If anyone listening to this would care to point to a good explanation of how speech renderers work under Linux, I'd love to get savvy. cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
