Re: [orca-list] Converting text to mp3

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

First I convert text to .wav by:
espeak -s150 -ven -w test.wav -f text.txt
Here -s150 for 150 words per minute an -ven to chose for english.

After I convert .wav to mp3 with soundconverter.
Milton


Op 30-08-15 om 15:44 schreef kendell clark:
> hi
> Espeak can also natively convert text to awav file, I believe it's the
> -w command line switch that does it, then -f to read from a file. So you
> could do something like, espeak -w test.wav -f test.txt, to read the
> text from test.txt and output that as test.wav. I assume you mean easy
> to use gui programs to do this though. Vinux 3, which is what I
> originally switched on, had a program called audiobook converter which
> did this, written in python, and I believe used espeak to do the
> translation. It's probably not maintained any longer, but if I can I'm
> going to try to get my hands on the source and put it in sonar, a not so
> easy thing to do. So all the tools are there, yes, but it needs someone
> to develop an easy to use gui wrapper around them. Most of us, if we
> want to do something like this know how, so there hasn't really been a
> lot of need for it, but all it takes is for someone to write one.
> Although I'd suggest they add patent free codecs to the list, like ogg
> vorbis, flac, and opus, in case not everyone uses mp3, I don't.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
>
> On 08/30/2015 08:13 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hi Vojta,
> >
> > If you mean converting text to mp3 using text to speech yes it is
> > possible. I don't know if any of the free open source synths have the
> > right kind of tools since I have not tried them, but I know the
> > commercial Swift voices from Cepstral come with a command line tool
> > called Swift that can read text files aloud and convert them to wav.
> >  From there it is a simple step to use lame etc to convert the wav
> > files to mp3. So what you want to do can certainly be done but since I
> > always use commercial voices and tools for this I'm not sure of any
> > free and open source alternatives at this point.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > On 8/30/15, Vojtěch Šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz> wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can I convert text to mp3 in Linux? What program is accessible for us?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Vojta.
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