Text to mp3 conversion
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From: Woody on 25 May 2010 08:51 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-25, Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > > On 25/05/2010 13:19, Woody wrote: > >> Basil Jet<johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I have hundreds of .txt files that I need to convert to mp3 files for > >>> revision purposes. I was very happy with Alive Text To Speech on the PC, > >>> but they seem not to do a Mac version. Can anyone recommend a spy-free > >>> Mac alternative, preferably free? Thanks. Alternatively, since speed is > >>> not really an issue, how successful are Windows emulators? > >> > >> You could use something like audio hijack with textedit and select > >> 'speak text' > > > > Thanks, but I don't need text to speech, I need text to mp3. I need to > > end up with mp3 CDs I can listen to in the car. > > Which is where the Audio Hijack part of Woody's answer comes in - it would > capture the audio from TextEdit and save it as an mp3. Yes, sorry to not make that clear. Audio Hijack takes the audio from any source and saves it to disk. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jim on 25 May 2010 09:22 On 2010-05-25, R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> You could use something like audio hijack with textedit and select >> 'speak text' > > Also "Soundflower", which is free: > > http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/downloads/list I've had issues with that under 10.6 Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "RESEARCH showing that men lie more than women is proof they should stop asking them awkward questions in the first place, say scientists." - The Daily Mash
From: Richard Tobin on 25 May 2010 09:42 In article <4bfbbefc$0$2523$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: >I have hundreds of .txt files that I need to convert to mp3 files for >revision purposes. I was very happy with Alive Text To Speech on the PC, >but they seem not to do a Mac version. Can anyone recommend a spy-free >Mac alternative, preferably free? If you happy building from source, you could probably use the Festival speech synthesis system: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html -- Richard
From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 May 2010 17:45 Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > Woody wrote: > > Basil Jet<johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > > > >> I have hundreds of .txt files that I need to convert to mp3 files for > >> revision purposes. I was very happy with Alive Text To Speech on the PC, > >> but they seem not to do a Mac version. Can anyone recommend a spy-free > >> Mac alternative, preferably free? Thanks. Alternatively, since speed is > >> not really an issue, how successful are Windows emulators? > > > > You could use something like audio hijack with textedit and select > > 'speak text' > > Thanks, but I don't need text to speech, I need text to mp3. The first step of which is to get text to speech... > I need to > end up with mp3 CDs I can listen to in the car. How about: CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 - 0.93 <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34221> found thusly: <http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=t ext+to+speech&srchArea=macosx> I'd use LAME to create the mp3s from AIFF (if using the above) - you'll get a better quality in the end for a given bitrate, especially for low bite rates. iTunes-LAME Encoder - 2.0.9.34 <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13048> I suspect you should be able to automate the two-stage process to stop it being a pain. I've got MacOS 10.6; Alex seems to be the best voice currently (set in System Prefs->System->Speech->Text to speech). The accent grates less on my ears than the rest of 'em, anyway. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Basil Jet on 25 May 2010 22:09
On 25/05/2010 13:51, Woody wrote: > Jim<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-05-25, Basil Jet<johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: >>> On 25/05/2010 13:19, Woody wrote: >>>> Basil Jet<johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have hundreds of .txt files that I need to convert to mp3 files for >>>>> revision purposes. I was very happy with Alive Text To Speech on the PC, >>>>> but they seem not to do a Mac version. Can anyone recommend a spy-free >>>>> Mac alternative, preferably free? Thanks. Alternatively, since speed is >>>>> not really an issue, how successful are Windows emulators? >>>> >>>> You could use something like audio hijack with textedit and select >>>> 'speak text' >>> >>> Thanks, but I don't need text to speech, I need text to mp3. I need to >>> end up with mp3 CDs I can listen to in the car. >> >> Which is where the Audio Hijack part of Woody's answer comes in - it would >> capture the audio from TextEdit and save it as an mp3. > > Yes, sorry to not make that clear. Audio Hijack takes the audio from any > source and saves it to disk. Thanks, but I have over three hundred text files, and they change gradually. Anything that requires manual input per file is a non-starter. Alive Text To Speech could only manage 64 files per run, but that was doable, I could select 64 files in Windows Explorer and perform a single menu operation to create 64 mp3 files in the same directory. Repeat 5 times and I had done the lot. |