Hello,

I did something last year, based on a patch by Philippe Boisnard. It's some kind of a typewriter. The patch can read a textfile (and only that) and send each letter to different selectors. Each letter is associated to a number which is also turned into a frequency using [mtof] And then ... In fact with this patch, once who are able to select each letter, you can do anything you want with it.

Here is a sample. Tell me if you want to have a closer look to the patch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HX7h12_Tg64

Hope it can be useful.

2012/6/11 Matthias Kronlachner m.kronlachner@student.tugraz.at

there is also one for espeak library which is quite nice because you can easily change pronunciation (voice) and pitch.

http://github.com/kronihias/espeak http://espeak.sourceforge.net

matthias

Am 11.06.12 15:59, schrieb Bryan Jurish:

there are at least 2 pd interfaces to the flite tts library out there, 1 in svn under ecternals/moocow. there's also ratts, available from ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd http://ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Emoocow/projects/pd

marmosets, -bryan

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Update: I've just added support for reading plaintext files, it's all in the readme

From: jbturgid@hotmail.com To: dataferx@gmail.com; pd-list@iem.at Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:29:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [PD] text to sound

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. Anyway, you can get it from https://github.com/ajfaraday/text-to-music The sonification is based on some simple rules: Letters are a semitone apart in alphabetical orderNumbers describe a diminished scaleSpaces provide a gap(there are some specific percussion sounds) It's actually quite a nice way of hearing the patterns in written language, you can hear rhymes, and repeating patterns and rhythms from the character length of words. It's set up to read twitter streams and RSS to get some real-time data on a subject of your choice, too. All I would ask is that you let me know how you find the project, and if you can think of another use for it.

• Andrew

Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:59:57 -0400 From: dataferx@gmail.com To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [PD] text to sound

Hi, i am developing a proyect where the main idea is transform text data to sound. Time ago i was experimenting with the concept of devices as files in linux where you can "read" diferent files, like pdf as sound redirecting files to standar output ( by example in bash you can do cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/audio to "hear" the sound of harddisc data)

Then i am looking for similar procedures using PD, anybody out there know about a way to transform by explame a pdf or plain text into sound output? i know its a very general question but any help will be apreciated

thanks F

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Andrew Faraday jbturgid@hotmail.comwrote:

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

On 12/06/12 04:29, Andrew Faraday wrote:

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.

try pdftotext, get it from debian pkgs poppler-utils or xpdf-utils

Simon