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 TextToMP3 - 1.0converts text files to spoken word MP3 audio files |
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.7) |
Features: | (2.0) |
Support: | (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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I agree with... - Version: 1.0, 12/19/2006 01:26PM PST
rcsianon
...melagree. It flashes up and then nothing. Up and went like a fart in the wind. Help...sounds like a great app.
Thanks
Thanks
Works fine with ASCII text - Version: 1.0, 10/19/2006 11:09AM PST
frankatwallst
Works as described with ASCII text.
1) Uses the Macintosh-built-in
/usr/bin/sayprogram to create an AIFF file from the text;2) Uses a copy of LAME included in the download to convert the AIFF to MP3; and
3) Deletes the AIFF file.
The problem appears to be that the Mac program
/usr/bin/sayis very finicky about what it will 'speak'. The whole CR-LF vs. LF thing seems to be enough for it to barf; other text like long hyphens instead of double-dashes (— vs. --), and 'curly quotes' instead of plain-vanilla-ascii quotes also may play a role.It should be tough to add a
sedscript to the front end to clean out everything but plain ASCII, but I'm already over the time limit I'd allocated for this :-)