Re: [microsound] text to sound conversion

[Brian Klein <btk3782@xxxxxxxxx>]

too bad i'm lame and don't have unix, but that's
exactly the type of thing i wanted to do. oh well. i
can just open the txt file in the wav editor


--- Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The easiest way to convert text to sound, if you're
> using unix,
> it to simply redirect sound to the audio device:
> 
> cat text_file > /dev/audio
> 
> or:
> 
> play -f s -c 2 -s w -r 11025 -t raw text_file
> 
> I'd prefer to analyse text then produce some kind of
> mediated
> output based on my own algorithms, but this can be
> fun.
> 
> I'm doing a little project where I'm using the
> binaries of audio
> programs to create sounds, something I find ironic
> in a way,
> and I used this to get started.
> 
> I find:
> 
> play -f s -c 2 -s w -r 11025 -t raw `which csound`
> 
> to have an awesome, wholesome groove.
> 
> --
> http://alex.bash.sh
> 
> 
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