eSpeak is a commandline based audio synthesis programme. It came standard with Ubuntu (8.04) and works perfectly on this amd64 bit computer. This simple line of text does several lovely little bits of magic: espeak -vnl -f voicetest.txt -w TEST.wav -vnl: choose the Dutch voice (more languages (...)
I have always been quite fascinated by Foley artists, who add “natural sounds” to films, often by imitating reality through means of watermelons, coconuts, rugs, gravel… The way they produce the sounds, together with the sync quality (they have to stage it – also do they have a score – noting, hit (...)
Old faithful Audacity, the easy sound editing programme has been disappointing me for a while now, in the sense that I can open a sound, convert it to another format, but I cannot listen to it (highly unpractical for a sound editor)… “error while opening sound device” Now, I have looked for some (...)
A couple of years I ago, I bought a Iriver H340, a sound hard disc recorder for Constant, because the minidiscs were getting old and after some time, you really get sick of digitalizing the 567.273 minidiscs. I was really not pleased about this machine, because you could for example, not easily (...)
Somewhere in the beginning of April I was contacted by two young ladies from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were looking for an organisation to be able to launch their project concerning guerilla bookmarks. As I have fond memories of my “stage” in Montreal, I decided to say yes and this enabled (...)
In the past I had the entention to write a manual on how to configure Jack, for a good performance. Luckily the Ubuntu Studio blog called Ubustu beat me to it and they have published a great manual here: **How to Configure JACK in Ubuntu (...)
I have recently been working on a manual for a certain script with which you can easily record interviews, without having to edit them. More about this script will follow later. During the research and testing phase of this script, I have encountered many a challenge (euphemism for problem). At (...)
This is actually the fourth Linux audio workshop! Some details: ** What: Workshop ARDOUR ** Where: Atelier du web, Rue du Fortstraat 39, 1060 Bruxel ** When: 14/06/07, 19:30 – 21:00 ** Info and enrollment: http://wiki.bxlug.be/ProjetAudio/Mini-atelier_2 Thursday june the 14th an Ardour (...)
Through the Make Magazine weblog I have found a website called Osalt (open source as alternative) which shows what alternatives there are for Commercial software in open source software. Now, of course it would be better to start with open source software in the first place, but more often than (...)
A while ago, there was a question for Constant, concerning The Gimp, GNU Image Manipulation Program and possible tutorials on The Gimp. I stumbled upon a review of the following book: Gimp 2 for photographers. And the review is (...)