[PD] text to sound

[Max D]

There is also the text2wave method with [shell] to make some wav files.

echo "text to be synthesized" | text2wave -f 44100 -scale 1 -o
/home/username/file/output.wav

maxD

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:45 PM, András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've got an open source project using ruby to parse strings and send
>> commands via TCP to pure data. Which started with some of my earliest non-pd
>> coding. It's not currently set up to read text files, but it'd be a fairly
>> simple mod, so you're welcome to learn ruby and submit a patch.
>>
>> PDF's are a much more complicated file format, I don't know how you'd go
>> about extracting the text content from them to feed the text-to-music
>> algorithm.
>> [...]
>
>
> PDF is indeed complicated, but extracting text can be as simple as a
> (simple) regular expression. As far as I understand, basically, everything
> between parentheses "(" and ")" is text (or more rigorously, everything
> between parentheses between the strings "BT" and "ET" between the strings
> "obj" and "endobj" is text, but I think it's enough to search for only the
> parantheses). The escape character is the backslash, and it has only a
> couple uses:
>
> Sequence | Meaning
> ---------------------------------------------
> \n       | LINE FEED (0Ah) (LF)
> \r       | CARRIAGE RETURN (0Dh) (CR)
> \t       | HORIZONTAL TAB (09h) (HT)
> \b       | BACKSPACE (08h) (BS)
> \f       | FORM FEED (FF)
> \(       | LEFT PARENTHESIS (28h)
> \)       | RIGHT PARENTHESIS (29h)
> \\       | REVERSE SOLIDUS (5Ch) (Backslash)
> \ddd     | Character code ddd (octal)
>
> Apart from security settings that may block text extraction, unfortunately,
> there could be compression applied - but I don't know how that works.
>
> András
>
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