[SLUG] Re: text to wav/speech tools

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 11:02:09 EST


On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 00:19, Josh Tiner wrote:
> Maybe this isn't on the same "morse" / "ham" radio subject line...but I was
> wondering - does anyone know of a text to speech engine that i can use to
> make mp3s / wav files with. I'd /reaaaaally/ like to make a few sound bytes
> with something like that. I know one comes default on a Mac - but the only
> OSii i have here are RedHat 7.2 and WinXP (ugh!).

Festival has the ability to output its "Translation" to a wav file,
which you can then convert to whatever you want. In many other ways,
Festival is a really fun toy/powerful tool.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

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