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mainie · Dec 12, 2006, 10:09 PM

How do I convert a MS Word file into a MP3?

wizzkid89 · Dec 12, 2006, 10:44 PM

I don't believe you can, but there is one option you can try, although I haven't tried it before. Remember this is completely experimental, and I don't think you have the right data for it to crossover or at least work.

Anyway, if open the document and resave it under a new name, give it a different extension(pick .mp3 in your case), that my make the file transfer to a mp3 setting, but again I am not quite sure, but it might...

Thomas1970 · Dec 12, 2006, 10:50 PM

Hi Mainie,
You can not directly convert an MS Word document into an MP3 file, as the former is a text format and the latter a compressed audio format. If you are trying to convert a sound object or objects embedded within a Word document, you would first need to extract them somehow, I would assume. How you would go about this, I'm not entirely sure, as I've never worked with sounds in MS Word.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Take care.

wizzkid89 · Dec 12, 2006, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Thomas1970

Hi Mainie,
You can not directly convert an MS Word document into an MP3 file, as the former is a text format and the latter a compressed audio format. If you are trying to convert a sound object or objects embedded within a Word document, you would first need to extract them somehow, I would assume. How you would go about this, I'm not entirely sure, as I've never worked with sounds in MS Word.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Take care.

Yeah, I didn't think it was possible for the exact reasons you said. I don't know why I said that, I just thought she was working inside of dreamweaver and threw out an answer.

P.S. I couldn't give you rep... I have to spread it around...

Thomas1970 · Dec 12, 2006, 10:59 PM

One other possible option. If you know your soundcard is "full duplex (most newer ones are)" -- able to play and record simultaneously -- you can use an audio editor (there are some good free ones available) to record to Wav or a similar format, and compress to mp3 from there.

Originally Posted by wizzkid89

Yeah, I didn't think it was possible for the exact reasons you said. I don't know why I said that, I just thought she was working inside of dreamweaver and threw out an answer.

P.S. I couldn't give you rep...I have to spread it around...

Hi Wizzkid. Thanks. That was a good idea. Changing the extension does sometimes work with certain file types in certain programs, depending on the type of data contained. I'm just not sure an audio program could ignore the irrelevant or extraneous data to find the embedded Wavs. It might be worth a try though.

ScottGem · Dec 13, 2006, 09:29 AM

As has been noted these are two very different type of formats. What you MIGHT be able to do is use a Text to Speech utility to "read" the text file into a sound file that can then be converted to MP3.