Sounds great but I have one suggestion. That is to experiment with the bit
sample rate. There is very little voice information above 10 k and the
loweest exceptable sample rate should reduce file size and processing time.
For books I would try the lowest available sample rate and if it sounds ok
to you. use it.
Sam
Any questions about it feel free to write me offlist.
First what you do to split a text file, (must be .txt for converting to audio with text aloud), is go into text aloud's file menu, and in o the file splitter utility. Then you would browse to the file that you want, and choose to split it either by size or by character string. If ou want to split it into chapters, the character string you'd choose is chapter, and that is case sensitive, so depending on whether it was Chapter or CHAPTER in your book, you'd put that in the character string option. Then each time text aloud saw the word chapter it would go to the next text file.
Before you convert, you'll want to have your voice and speed selected. You can do this by opening a text file within text aloud, and do a control f3 to let it start reading. Speed it up with control s, and slow it down with control alt s. When it reaches the speed that you like, stop it from reading aloud with control f10.
Once you have your book split into several text files, you would go into the file menu of text aloud again, and go into the batch file converter. Select all of the text files, and here you would also be able to select the quality of your files. I have mine set to 40 kbbs, 22.05 khz mono, because it's not like the files are in stereo anyway, and these mono files are smaller.
When you're setting the voice options, etc., sometimes I've found that you have to use the mouse keys for selecting. If this is clear as mud, feel free to write as I said.
Pam
