[LAU] Release: story_maker - make dramatised readings with your speech synths

Hi everyone, this is a script to make a dramatised reading from a plain text file, using speech synthesizers on both Linux and MAC OS. Hear the software play it for you. :) https://freeshell.de/~silvain/software/story_maker-1.0rc1.tar.bz2 It works from the Linux terminal and only needs sndfile (sndfile-concat and sndfile-convert) and optionally oggenc or lame to create a fully tagged audiobook. story_maker can use sapi4linux (sapilektor), espeak and festival on Linux and the standard MAC OS voices (through say), which includes the InfoVox IVox voices. Features: automatically find direct speech interactively assign character names to direct speech passages choose a cast of voices for your characters save a full or partial cast and use it for other stories automatically render on Linux and (optionally) MAC (using ssh) optionally build a fully tagged OGG or mp3 file I can't publicly supply my demo, since it uses proprietary voices, not meant for published audiofiles. :( But it sounds OK. It's certainly better than reading it at the computer scren or braille display and sounds much better than plain old espeak. :) I'd love to hear some feedback if you go for that crazy thing. <3 Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3