Re: [orca-list] Converting from text to MP3 files

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

eSpeak itself has a command to create an audio file from your text. To 
convert a text file to a wave file you would type a command like

espeak -w file.wave -f textfile.txt

This will convert the entire file to a wave file, which you can then 
convert to mp3 or whatever you like using your favorite sound conversion 
program.

As for converting each chapter to a single track, this must either be 
done in the text itself or by using something like Audacity to split the 
track at chapter or section boundaries once the audio file is produced. 
Unfortunately, I'm not currently aware of any easier way to do this, but 
I hope my information helps you.

On a side note, I'd love to be able to get SVox Pico to read entire 
files or chapters as well, but I seem to have run upon some kind of 
limitation where even if I read the file into a variable first, I get an 
error that says that the argument list is too long. Perhaps there's an 
application that solves this problem without using Bash and the included 
pico2wave utility, or something that builds on that utility to make it 
work. This little synthesizer actually doesn't sound bad.
~Kyle