[bookcourier] Re: Book Courier and MP3 files
- From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:13:11 -0000
Book Courier and MP3 filesHi Guy
just to be absolutely clear, this isn't something Jonathan has developed
himself, but a third party product which he recommended on his blog.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Barlow HR Workforce Information & Analysis Officer
To: 'bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Book Courier and MP3 files
Thanks James for your advice. I hope to look at Jonathan Mosen's application
at the weekend.
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: James O'Dell [mailto:jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 March 2006 18:10
To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Book Courier and MP3 files
Hi
The only problem you will have with creating a single large mp3 file is that
Text Aloud creates a wave file of the TTS output and then converts the wave
file to mp3. If you are splitting a large text into several mp3s this is not
an issue because the temporary wave file gets deleted each time a new mp3 is
created. However if you are trying to create a single mp3 from a large text,
which might well be worth doing since the BC has a Resume feature, then you
might want to try something else. Jonathan Mosen recently discussed a product
which he claims writes directly to mp3 on his weblog at www.mosenexplosion.com.
I have not used the product myself, but you can get more information on it at
www.text-mp3.com.
Hope this helps
James
----- Original Message -----
From: Leonin
To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:23 PM
Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Book Courier and MP3 files
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Barlow HR Workforce Information & Analysis Officer
To: 'bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:49 PM
Subject: [bookcourier] Book Courier and MP3 files
Could anyone educate me a little about the efficient creation of MP3
files for the Book Courier.
I have a 1GB Compact Flash card in my BC and usually create MP3 files by
loading text files into Kurzweil and then using the MP3 creation facility in
this application. Up until now I have created MP3 files containing around 40
pages of scanned text. I want to know ideally is it possible to scan create a
MP3 file from a complete text book e.g. 300 text pages in length using
Kurzweile, or will this crash my PC or be greater than 1GB?
Additionally, is the on line Text Aloud software more efficient and
better quality than Kurzweil V8?
Any advice would be most welcome,.
Guy
Hi Guy and list
I've used both Text Aloud and Kurzweil for conversions. If you convert
the mp3 file to no more than 64kps, you shouldn't have any problems fitting
several 300 page books onto 1GB. Whether it crashes your PC will depend very
much on how much memory and processing power it has, but even a less powerful
PC should be able to do this ok but it may take longer.
Text Aloud is quite good, plus you can purchase lots of different voices
from them - many of which are very realistic. It does seem to take longer to
convert than Kurzweil, though. If you have Text Aloud on your system, you can
use their voices from within Kurzweil, which is what I do, getting the best of
both worlds. Text Aloud is useful for converting a current web page to an mp3
file on the fly.
I think that it would come down to personal preferences and individual
systems, so the best thing to do is give it a go.
Hope this helps
Prisca
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