Re: festival speech tool pipe output into wav/mp3 file?

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Hi.  What was the name of this script?  Where could I get it?

Thanks!

 > From: Josef Oswald <http://www.chello.at/~linux.os>
 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:15:17 GMT
 >
 > Alan W Black <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb> writes:
 >
 > > Josef Oswald <http://www.chello.at/~linux.os> writes:
 > >
 > >> Josef Oswald <http://www.chello.at/~linux.os> writes:
 > >>
 > >> > This is the situation, I would like to record larger portion of text
 > >> > into wav and/or mp3 files. Festival speech was set up to use a mbrola
 > >> > voice. Now while festival provided a script (text2wav) to change a
 > >> > textile into wav-format text2wav does not use the desired voice.
 > >> >
 > >> > Where do I need to make the necessary changes to accomplish this?
 > >
 > > text2wave -eval '(voice_us1_mbrola)' -o - fred.txt | lame +whatever params
 > >
 > > I'm not sure what lame takes as arguments but text2wave will output the
 > > waveform to stdout with -o -.
 > Hi, thanks Alan for replying :-)
 >
 > It seems that lame will not do the required thing, but I found a
 > script that will allow multiple files be converted into mp3 that is
 > good enough for me.