creating .wav files

[Andrews, A.S.]

Matthew

There are a number of laborious options, but probably the best, if you can handle a little Java is to use

http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php

It's a library to do text-to-speech in Java. You could write a quick program that would go through your files and spit out sounds. The low quality included voices sound like 50s robots, but there are instructions for getting higher quality voices.

Best Regards

Tony Andrews
Senior Computer Officer
School of Psychology
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
Tel: 0116 223 1709



From: Matthew Kirschen
Sent: Fri 27/08/2004 22:05
To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: creating .wav files


I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (shareware or commercial, 
any platform) for creating auditory wav files from written text.  I'm 
programming an experiment looking at the difference between auditory and 
visual working memory.  I currently have a list of 5000 words for the 
visual condition, but I'm having difficulty creating auditory versions of 
the words.  I'm searching for a program which will input a list of words, 
digitize them in a spoken voice and create and save a .wav file (which I 
can then read into E-prime).  I'm trying to avoid the daunting task of 
speaking 5000 words into a microphone.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
thankx
mk


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