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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are a number of laborious options, but probably the best, if you can handle a little Java is to use</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Matthew Kirschen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 27/08/2004 22:05<BR><B>To:</B> eprime@mail.talkbank.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> creating .wav files<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><PRE style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">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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