Re: [SoX-users] easiest way to make morse code audible

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On Nov 29 22:58:25, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> I created a simple script to convert text strings to dot dash notation
> morse code.
> I'd like to take that output and make a sound file from that.
> I created a dot.ogg, dash.ogg and inter.ogg files.

You are better of creating these basic files as raw PCM,
it is less work for everyone; compressing such short files is pointless.

> I created a second simple script to create a playlist from my dot dash
> space output from my first script.

Does "playlist" mean "a syntactically valid PLS file"?

> mplayer waits too long between switching files so I thought combining
> them and playing that might be the best way to have it do what I'd
> like.
> So my question:
> Is there a way to have sox use a list of files to concatenate together?

Yes; SoX supports the 'playlist' (*.pls) format.

> Or, would it be good to create the file concatenating one file at a
> time? As there is a limit to characters per command and the list of
> files would exceed that.

That's what the PLS is for, among other things.

On Nov 30 08:12:54, Ari Moisio wrote:
> You can also make the dot, dash and pause as raw pcm files  and 
> concatenate them  with for example cat.

This would probably be the easiest way.