[bookcourier] Re: Book Courier and MP3 files
- From: "Leonin" <prisca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:23:40 -0000
Book Courier and MP3 files
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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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