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From: belinfan@cs.utwente.nl (Axel Belinfante)
Subject: Re: speech synthesis
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:03:29 GMT
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In article <3419e3$mfr@hk.super.net>,
 dickson@hk.super.net (Mr Dickson KwokYat Law) writes:
|>      Does anyone knows what PD software is available to convert text 
|> to a sound file (e.g. .au files) on Suns?  I have tried rsynth but it 
|> only goes to the speaker, I really don't want to touch the souce unless I 
|> absolutely have to.  Thanks

Rsynth is able to redirect .au output to a file or to stdout. (*)
It may not (yet?) be documented too well, though (use the source! :-).
try something like
        say -a -u file.au 'text to be spoken'
to redirect to file.au
        say -a -u - 'text to be spken'
to redirect audio bytes to stdout.
The -a option disables output to the speaker,
-u sends ulaw output to a file or to stdout (via 'file name' '-' )
there is also a -v option for more verbose output, which goes to stderr.

People who want other output could try to run something like sox to
convert the .au format.

Hope this helps.
Axel.

(*) that is the way it is used in my Say... page on the web:
        http://www_tios.cs.utwente.nl/say/
please don't forget the trailing slash, and please note that this
is the prefered URL - other URL's pointing to it should be updated.

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