The concept of text to wav doesn't make any sense without a clearly defined context.

. Are you looking for an application that will put a wav header on a ascii file so you can hear the kind of noise it'd make?

. Are you looking for a good ole' audio compiler?

. Are you looking for a text-to-speech application like "Talk It!" from Microsoft Plus! for Kids that also happens to have a wav output?

basicly what I'm looking for is something that is a tts program that can output to wav files. there are several such programs for current versions of windows, but finding one that works under dos, win 3.1 or win95 has been a bitch. In my google searching I didn't find anything, anything I probably found led to a dead link or something worse.

http://www.bytecool.com/textsnd.htm

thanks, I didn't think that program was available anymore, it hasn't been updated since 2002 I think and it never got sapi5 support. that's ok here because sapi5 doesn't work in win95 and there are some older synths that only ever supported sapi4, such as text assist 2.x (not related to the creative labs program of the same name, apart from being included with newer sound blaster cards).

Search in archive.org or in cd.textfiles.com p.e.

OK, I did manage to find some tts programs, but they didn't have the ability to convert to wav as far as I know. then again, the age of some of those shareware cds ment that the guys responsible for those cds had to conform to the 8.3 filename limit.

https://github.com/01org/acat/releases

the current version requires windows7.

I remember having a tts on my SB16 in DOS that came with the card.
I think it was called Monologue.

i'm talking about converting text to an audio file. text sound and cool speech both do that, but i was asking about other text to audio file programs for older versions of windows or for dos.

Speakanoia: http://web.archive.org/web/20020804022040/htt … om/home/?id=1.4

Original yet working download for older version: http://web.archive.org/web/20020804175359/htt … iasetup-1.0.exe

Mirrored download for newest version (100% clean): http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/files/file/446-speakonia/

Free registration code provided by the very authors of the application: http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/

thanks!