From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:45:16 +0100

>c s wrote:
> >
> > What Talkbox really needs more than a good setting
> > name is a voice synthesis application or batch script
> > that runs on Windoze and scans the whole Archos
> > directory tree and automatically creates a
> > .dirname.mp3 file in every directory.
>
>It'd be easy to make a vbscript that recurses the music or playlist
>folders and speaks the names using MS Agent. I've made a couple of
>scripts for fun that scrape weather data from weather.com and then
>"read" you the weather report, and I've written others to both generate
>folder playlists and make clickable HTML pages of my music library. A
>linear combination of those two scripts would generate all the sound
>bytes easily. OTOH, I've never tried to generate an mp3 file with the
>output. Any suggestions for a simple application to use to capture sound
>card output? (either WAV or even straight to MP3 to cut out another
>processing step...) If it has a command line interface I can call it
>from the script as I go and generate all the mp3 sound clips as fast as
>I can get the little agent characters to read them...

I know nothing of vbscript ...Could you get the script to start up a copy
of Windoze Recorder ...grab the handle for the window ...and press the REC
and STOP buttons at the right time?

If you have a Sound Blaster you can set the driver to record "What U Hear"
to assure a recording of whatever comes out of the speakers (at source.)

Maybe http://www.looprecorder.de/looprec.php will help? ...it claims to
have command line options :)
Received on 2003-05-31