Text File to Audio File Program ?

rvijay · 04-09-2006, 09:20 PM

There are software that already read out files input into them. Is there any software out there that converts text file that is input into it, into a .wav or .mp3 file ? If not, this seems to be a likely possibility in the future.

Such a software would benefit a project like librivox.org

Thanks.

d0odman · 04-09-2006, 09:49 PM

There's this command line program in OS X that does this. It's called say. The only reason I remember that is because I was helping my fiance use it to recite a few paragraphs of speech for a project she was doing. Don't think it's free software, but at least you now know there is software that does it for *nix systems.

rvijay · 04-10-2006, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by d0odman

There's this command line program in OS X that does this. It's called say. The only reason I remember that is because I was helping my fiance use it to recite a few paragraphs of speech for a project she was doing. Don't think it's free software, but at least you now know there is software that does it for *nix systems.

Here is a link to this program:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/speech/

It doesn't convert the file to an audio file. It just plays the voice.

rvijay · 04-10-2006, 04:26 AM

Here is one that came in my Inbox:
http://www.naturalreaders.com/

Info. on any more such would be appreciated.

d0odman · 04-10-2006, 03:40 PM

I know that that program that came with OSX converts the output in to a sound file. I think it converted it to an aiff, then I used sox to convert it in to a wav. The results were pretty nice.

PatrickMay16 · 04-10-2006, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rvijay

There are software that already read out files input into them. Is there any software out there that converts text file that is input into it, into a .wav or .mp3 file ? If not, this seems to be a likely possibility in the future.

Such a software would benefit a project like librivox.org

Thanks.

festival can do this; it seems like a command called "text2wave" comes with the festival package by default on most GNU/Linux distributions.

The use of the command is

text2wave inputfile.txt -o outputfile.wav

I hope this helps you.