about text2wave (audio/festival)

[Raaf]

José M. Fandiño wrote:
> Raaf wrote:
> 
>>>thanks you Randy, but I need convert text in audio files.
>>>
>>
>>Hi, you can use this to output to an audio file:
>>
>>(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
>>(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "sox -t raw -r $SR -sw -c 1  $FILE foo.wav")
> 
> 
> are you sure this works?
> 
> with a simple line it seems work, but for text files with multiple
> lines festival constantly reopens the same file for writting, so 
> I finish with the last lines of the text converted to an audio file
> and not the whole text.
>  
> just try this:
> 
> festival --tts /usr/share/doc/handbook/book.txt
> 

Yes you are right, it doesn't work with large texts. This should
work though:

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "cat $FILE >> foo.raw")

Afterwards you can process the raw audio file with sox.

You can also try audio/flite port which can output to wave file
directly.