[Kde-accessibility] ktts to lame mp3

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:50 am, Jürgen Zdero wrote:
> Hi accessibility-team,
>
> what do you think about integrating a feature in the audio-tab
> form of ktts. I would like to use an option under the "Keep audio file"
> which allows to keep audio-files as mp3 using lame.
> Actually the keep audio file generates single wav-files for each sentence.
> Maybe it's possible to have also an option for continous saving or
> concatenate these outputs to only one file. This should be optional because
> the single sentence mode is also very interesting.

My concern is it would slow down processing.  The existing option is mainly 
there as debugging aid (since the wav files are being created anyway) and for 
making occasional sample outputs.

It might be possible to write a separate prog to receive dcop events emitted 
by kttsd to process the .wav files and concatenate into mp3 or ogg.  If I'm 
not mistaken mpg123 is a prog that can do the conversion and sox can 
cantenate.

Another possibility is to use the Command plugin.  Set up a command that pipes 
the output of Festival through a process that concatenates each wav file and 
then returns the wav file back to kttsd.

> I also would liketo have an "Abut-box" with version-info in ktts.

Right-click on systray icon and choose About KTTSMgr.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php