[CW] Linux CW Morse text to sound file - wav mp3 etc or MIDI

[wealsowalk at aol.com]

Dave, there are quite a few programs out there that will generate cw sounds from the keyboard.  While they are being generated it should be quick and easy to make a .wav file simply by recording it with a standard recorder program (in widoze it would be called "sound recorder") if you really do want an audio file.  The audio files, though, take up quite a bit of space and if you have a program that will convert from a text file you do not really need an audio file.  Midi works in a similar way which is why midi files are small.  They do not record sounds but instructions for making sounds.  I know you are looking for something to work in unix or linux and most of the keyboard to sound cw programs are written for windows or mac. If you had some BASIC (not C) source code, do you think you could port it to Linux?   It might have some bugs to work out, like length of time per sound, when ported over.  That part would be a quick fix, but you would have to be able to do the port first.  The program I am thinking of is old, (ca. 1986) and written for an 8086 on DOS and I would have to search my archives to find it.
Bill
AC6QV






-----Original Message-----
From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: ka4inm <ka4inm at tampabay.rr.com>; CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 6:18 pm
Subject: Re: [CW] Linux CW Morse text to sound file - wav mp3 etc or MIDI


Hello Ron,

Both fldigi and twcw will generate sounds from keyboard and perhaps text files.  I didn't check on the text files.

But I do not see any way to get fldigi to output to a mp3 file.  Also I can't even get twcw to work on Ubuntu 10.10 but I previously had it working in either Debian or Ubuntu version of an earlier variety.

I am still looking either for a program that will convert text files into Morse code mp3 files (or other type audio file).

I have found ebook2cw http://freshmeat.net/projects/ebook2cw which can probably do the job and does a very nice job of making an mp3 file out of an eBook and even separates the chapters in different sound files.

I'm still open to anyone's suggestion.

Thanks for your help.

73
DR





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