Re: [orca-list] some tool to convert text to speech audio files

[Hammer Attila <hammera pickup hu>]

Hy Helios,

Yes, I have got an audio book converter application, but now only the 
stable version supporting hungarian language and now not possible 
choosing another Espeak language voice.
My application is not a GTK application, using Zenity dialogs, not a big 
application, but perhaps very good your purpose with future.
First I begin developing this application with Bash and Zenity, but 
recoded with Python when hungarian users requested pronunciation 
dictionary feature.
My application are converting external frontends with following files:
doc (antiword)
PDF (pdftotext)
HTML (builtin Espeak -m conversion)
ODT (odt2txt)
Plain text ofcourse supported.

My application are supporting basic pronunciation dictionary with an 
easy editable format, and supports with you want (Nautilus context menu 
if the caret are placed with a supported file format).
The application are possible converting one mp3 file with standard 
pipeline, but supporting splitting conversion if you choosing this 
option and gived a time period. If you choosing splitting, need enough 
free space with your disk, because Espeak need storing the temporary 
splitted wave files before converting the splitted mp3 files.

Need I doing following tasks if more people want internationalizing this 
application:
1. Need doing localization support with the application (the application 
UI interface localization possibility is done, only the .deb package 
installation need doing right the future).
2. Need coding different Espeak language voice choosing support (this is 
not done yet, because now I not have got enough time).

If anybody interesting the developing version source,  I welcome send 
anybody the source code, because my application of course is free 
software. But I am happier if anybody known a better already done 
application with better supporting with your syster purpose task.

Attila