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

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello Bill,

If you find the BASIC code send it to djringjr at gmail.com as that email takes
9 MB attachments.

I will see what I can do.

DR

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, <wealsowalk at aol.com> wrote:

>  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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