You can do this with eflite...you just do: eflite filename.txt filename.wav Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:51 PM To: speakup 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." _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
