Terrence <terrencevak-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, all, > Does anyone know if there's a way to convert text files to MP3s > in Linux? I'd like to be able to take some of my text files and make > audio out of them so I can listen to them while walking. "mbrola" (free-beer license, closed source from academic sector) takes a list of phonemes as input to create audio output. So you need a language specific text-to-phonemes tool. The mbrola site has links for those (festival, txt2pho etc.). To turn textfiles into ogg/mp3 you would setup a chain of shell pipes like cat textfile | txt2pho | mbrola voicefile - - | encoder http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html Are you a noisecore person? You'd then just get rid of parts 2 and 3 of that very chain of course. Wolfgang
