Existing users, 
 TextToMP3 - 1.0converts text files to spoken word MP3 audio files |
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Feedback Summary:
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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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remove the txt file extension - Version: 1.0, 5/28/2009 10:52AM PST
mattcheo
I'm on Leopard, the app works fine. It would be perfect for me if the mp3 file name did not include the original ".txt" file extension name (speech.txt.mp3).
Not working on Leopard - Version: 1.0, 4/19/2009 06:01AM PST
MarkusWinter
Flashes and disappears again.
Why it's broken, how to get around it. - Version: 1.0, 2/24/2008 10:29PM PST
MrRedwood
I explored the innards of the app, and discovered it does three things:
1) Uses the Macintosh-built-in
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
It should be tough to add a
1) Uses the Macintosh-built-in
/usr/bin/say program 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/say is 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
sed script to the front end to clean out everything but plain ASCII, but I'm already over the time limit I'd allocated for this :-)
