For Windows users, the easiest way to record text-to-speech is using the popular freeware Audacity (https://audacityteam.org) with Windows screen
reader Narrator (C:\Windows\System32\Narrator.exe) using wasapi loopback
(this also works using any other text-to-speech / screen-reader program):

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=audacity+wasapi+loopback

... >https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html
...
Windows WASAPI loopback recording
Tip This is the recommended method of recording audio playing on the >computer on Windows with Audacity.
On Windows, you can choose the Windows WASAPI Audio Host and then the >(loopback) input in the Recording Device box. Choose the loopback input
for the computer playback device you will be listening to (for example, >"Speakers (loopback)". The loopback input records computer playback even
if your sound device lacks its own stereo mix or similar input.
WASAPI loopback has a big advantage over stereo mix or similar inputs >provided by the audio interface. The capture is entirely digital (rather
than converting to analog for playback, then back to digital when Audacity >receives it).
Advice Windows WASAPI host only records loopback when there is an active
signal present. When there is no active signal, recording pauses and will >restart once an active signal resumes.

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On Fri, 7/26/2024 1:46 PM, D wrote:

For Windows users, the easiest way to record text-to-speech is using the popular freeware Audacity (https://audacityteam.org) with Windows screen reader Narrator (C:\Windows\System32\Narrator.exe) using wasapi loopback (this also works using any other text-to-speech / screen-reader program):

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=audacity+wasapi+loopback

...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html
...
Windows WASAPI loopback recording
Tip This is the recommended method of recording audio playing on the
computer on Windows with Audacity.
On Windows, you can choose the Windows WASAPI Audio Host and then the
(loopback) input in the Recording Device box. Choose the loopback input
for the computer playback device you will be listening to (for example,
"Speakers (loopback)". The loopback input records computer playback even
if your sound device lacks its own stereo mix or similar input.
WASAPI loopback has a big advantage over stereo mix or similar inputs
provided by the audio interface. The capture is entirely digital (rather
than converting to analog for playback, then back to digital when Audacity >> receives it).
Advice Windows WASAPI host only records loopback when there is an active
signal present. When there is no active signal, recording pauses and will
restart once an active signal resumes.

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Even though one participant in the thread above, made
us a script that does the conversion faster than real time.
It's done at computer speed, rather than streamed at speaker speed.

It made a 53MB .wav file in less than one second, from five hundred input sentences.
Which is pretty good.

Paul

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On 7/26/2024 7:40 PM, Paul wrote:

Even though one participant in the thread above, made
us a script that does the conversion faster than real time.
It's done at computer speed, rather than streamed at speaker speed.

It made a 53MB .wav file in less than one second, from five hundred input sentences.
Which is pretty good.

Notice the email address: mixmin.net, makers of audio
software. so maybe this is supposed to be an ad?
Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads posts
they didn't write. :)

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On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:40:42 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 7/26/2024 1:46 PM, D wrote:

For Windows users, the easiest way to record text-to-speech is using the
popular freeware Audacity (https://audacityteam.org) with Windows screen
reader Narrator (C:\Windows\System32\Narrator.exe) using wasapi loopback
(this also works using any other text-to-speech / screen-reader program):

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=audacity+wasapi+loopback

...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html
...
Windows WASAPI loopback recording
Tip This is the recommended method of recording audio playing on the
computer on Windows with Audacity.
On Windows, you can choose the Windows WASAPI Audio Host and then the
(loopback) input in the Recording Device box. Choose the loopback input
for the computer playback device you will be listening to (for example,
"Speakers (loopback)". The loopback input records computer playback even >>> if your sound device lacks its own stereo mix or similar input.
WASAPI loopback has a big advantage over stereo mix or similar inputs
provided by the audio interface. The capture is entirely digital (rather >>> than converting to analog for playback, then back to digital when Audacity >>> receives it).
Advice Windows WASAPI host only records loopback when there is an active
signal present. When there is no active signal, recording pauses and will >>> restart once an active signal resumes.

[end quoted excerpt]

Even though one participant in the thread above, made
us a script that does the conversion faster than real time.
It's done at computer speed, rather than streamed at speaker speed.
It made a 53MB .wav file in less than one second, from five hundred input sentences.
Which is pretty good.
Paul

i'm a retired hobbyist simply looking for the easiest ways to do
what otherwise might be more complicated than a few mouse clicks,
but whatever works, works . . . Audacity sure makes audio easier

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On 7/26/2024 10:32 PM, D wrote:

i'm a retired hobbyist simply looking for the easiest ways to do
what otherwise might be more complicated than a few mouse clicks,
but whatever works, works . . . Audacity sure makes audio easier

Audacity is great. But it's an advanced program for
working with audio. The issue here was text-to-speech.
Windows SAPI does that and will speak it, or optionally
write the result to a WAV file.

What you posted is links to ideas for recording audio
playback. First you'd be running the text through Narrator
in order to get the audio. Narrator is just a simple
front-end for SAPI. Then you'd be using Audacity to record
the audio created by SAPI and generated through Narrator.
A 10-line script cuts out both middlemen and does the whole
job almost instantly without needing to actually broadcast
the TTS. SAPI is creating the audio and then just writing
to file instead of playing it. The spVpoice.Speak method
provides both options.

I think I used Audacity once to get lectures on cassette
tapes into mp3s. It worked beautifully. But in this case
it's a complicated process that almost no one will undertake,
and neither Audacity nor Narrator is necessary.

It's like driving to the next state to get something you
need and then finding out that the shop around the corner
carries that item and charges less. Unless you're trying to
get away from your wife, or you just love driving, there would
be no sense in continuing to make that trip to the next state.

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