Hi shannon, I know of one program that will convert your text to an mp3. Go to http://www.inspirecode.net and pick up the version of a program called SayPad that applies to the computer system you have. Hope this helps.
Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:28 AM Subject: Re: multimedia question > Well, sorry I do not know how to convert a text file to mp3. I work with > audio and converting cassettes and making mp3 files. I wish I knew the > other things you are trying to do. But text conversion to spech is not what > I do myself. It's not that I do not wish ot, it's just one thing I don't > know about. When I do talking books, I set the bit rate to 32 so I can fit > a long books or a series of short ones onto a disc. For music however, I > use a higher bit rate. > > Mimi > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:17 AM > Subject: Re: multimedia question > > > > Mimi, > > Please excuse this question if this should be a no brainer. > > I am new to all of this recording stuff.When you said that the bit rate > was > > 32 for talking books is that the origional bit rate for recording? > > If you will allow me to tell you what I do know (Which is not much) maybe > > you could fill me in. > > I know that I have a book in text format. I want to make it a MP3. I > > downloaded a trial version of "Text aloud". > > Now start the questions is this where the 32 bit part comes in? Once I > have > > made an MP3 what settings are needed to burn this to a mini disk walkman > so > > this book could have legs? > > I am sorry if this was too long of a subject. > > Shannon > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:27 PM > > Subject: Re: multimedia question > > > > > > > Hello, Tony, > > > > > > What the person who did the encoding did was set the bit rate to 32; > that > > is > > > the reason they got 50 hours of material on one CD in mp3 form. I > encode > > > all the time, and do this for talking books, which is just someone > reading > > a > > > book anyway. Of course, for music, a much higher rate is preferable, so > I > > > do my music in 128 to 192. Above and the mp3 files would be much too > big. > > > I mp3 classical and pop music so this is understandable. Hope I have > > > answered your query. Anytime someone puts around 50 hours of stuff on a > > CD, > > > they have used the smallest bit rate setting. > > > > > > Mimi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "nick danger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:08 PM > > > Subject: multimedia question > > > > > > > > > Hi yall, > > > > > > Maybe somebody can answer this one because I'm just not sure of this. > > > Here's my quandry. > > > > > > I am a bunch of mp3's on my hard drive and I've got nero 5.5 as my rom > > > burner. A friend of mine gave me a disk with about 50 hours worth of > > stuff > > > on it. I wonder if this compilation was made with a different type of > cd. > > I > > > know you can store all kinds of material on a dvd rom but this wasn't > one > > of > > > those. What type of blank media is that and can nero work with it? I'm > > > going to be stripping this computer soon and installing win2k on it. > > Thanks > > > for helping in advance guys and dolls. > > > > > > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
