Hi, Cheryl. The Dectalk Software RT has a say program that can play text files, and also can turn text files in to wav files. Recently, i been looking at this program to see if I can record my ebooks in to wav files, and then use lame to make mp3s. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:50 PM 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 >
