Need help with SayPad

[SamF.]

How do I get SayPad to make wav file or files?

Will SayPad make wav file of text faster than it would take to say it?

Can SayPad make recordings using AT&T voices?

 

[Steve H]

How do I get SayPad to make wav file or files?

Will SayPad make wav file of text faster than it would take to say it?

Can SayPad make recordings using AT&T voices?

You can use Audacity - set it to record from the WAV input.

I doubt SayPad ( or any other text to speech program ) can make a wav
file faster than simply speaking into a microphone, and from my own
experience using such programs I find they sometimes trip up over
pronunciation ( which you can get round by using 'phonetic' spelling
).

Regards,

 

[SamF.]

Steve,

Some programs that will make a recording of the text faster than
they can say it.

Text Recorder and dspeech. There are more freeware programs that will
do this. I Tested Dspeech yesterday. I made a recording of a book that
would take 11 hours to record in about one hour. I had to have the
program split the file into chuncks to do this.

Yes text to speech programs do make errors. Still, I am not willing to
spend 11 hours to read a book so that I can listen to it.

Yes audacity can work. I have used it. I want to simplify my task.

At this time I am having trouble recording large text files and I have
not had any luck using AT&T voices.

 

[Steve H]

Steve,

Some programs that will make a recording of the text faster than
they can say it.

Text Recorder and dspeech. There are more freeware programs that will
do this. I Tested Dspeech yesterday. I made a recording of a book that
would take 11 hours to record in about one hour. I had to have the
program split the file into chuncks to do this.

Yes text to speech programs do make errors. Still, I am not willing to
spend 11 hours to read a book so that I can listen to it.

Yes audacity can work. I have used it. I want to simplify my task.

At this time I am having trouble recording large text files and I have
not had any luck using AT&T voices.

Unless you can find a Text to Speech program that has a built-in
archiver, I think the only way around it would be to use something
like Autoit to create a script to bridge the Text to Speak engine with
the recorder.
You'll also have the problem with dealing with a wav file that could
be 11 hours long ( about 6Gb? ).

Sounds like an intriguing project!

Regards,