G. Ratte Posted May 25, 2002 Share Posted May 25, 2002 More accurately, books-on-MP3, but anyhow: So I'm thinking...say you had a buncha ASCII text-like all the public domain books on Project Gutenberg. And a text-to-speech app that renders to disk. Such as the MBROLA Project: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html And an iPod or one of those CD players that handles MP3 CDs or something. Chop the text down to chapters, render to AIFF, convert to MP3s, and BAM- you're getting 'reading' done at work, for free. Anybody done this? Good idea or half-baked? I'd like to be doing it under Mac OS X if possible, but whatever. Also: is there a way to render the Mac native speech synthesis to disk? I could just record it, but that'd be real-time and that's no good. Victoria High-Quality is hot. Uh. G. Ratte' http://www.cultdeadcow.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Nursers Posted May 25, 2002 Share Posted May 25, 2002 Hmmm, I reckon the synthetic voice would drive you insane after 30 mins or so. Excellent idea though The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast My Music: Stainless Fields Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanmass Posted May 25, 2002 Share Posted May 25, 2002 Why not read them yourselves and post them? You never know, maybe you can get some voice work out of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_Gould Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 I download books from Project Guttenburg and have my computer read me to sleep at night. I had to do a lot of tweaking to get a voice that was understandable and didn't make me grit my teeth. Interesting thought - but I think you'd want to use real (even amatuer) voice talent if you wanted it to be anything other than a novelty. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 Why not just read? "That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." - Banky Edwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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