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Text to speech program?
mr henderson - 20/11/08 at 05:12 PM

Anyone know of a program into which I can put some text, and have it render it into speech?

Free would be good

Thanks

John

Pdlewis - 20/11/08 at 05:16 PM

its built into the accesability options in windows

Called screen reader i think

eznfrank - 20/11/08 at 05:17 PM

Some PC's have it built in already. Go to Control Panel>Speech>Text to speech and then type it in the box half way down.

blakep82 - 20/11/08 at 05:19 PM

or do you want one that you type into it what you want it to say, rather than windows reading out error message and stuff?

iank - 20/11/08 at 05:23 PM

Google suggests http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm

mr henderson - 20/11/08 at 05:25 PM

Thanks for the replies, chaps. What I need is a program into which I can paste a piece of text which I will obtain from a text book, the net, etc, and have it output a sound file which I can then transfer onto an MP3 player

I tried the speech item in control panel, but it won't let me paste text into it

John

mr henderson - 20/11/08 at 05:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
Google suggests http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm


OK, I've downloaded that and will experiment with it, thanks. I presume the 'google suggests' was just a petite digette that maybe I could have googled it myself, so I shall consider myself admonished (but I didn't know what search terms to use, so that's my excuse)

John

JeffHs - 20/11/08 at 05:38 PM

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

I think this does what you want

matt_claydon - 20/11/08 at 06:34 PM

The AT&T one is good for small blocks of text. Like this:

BenB - 20/11/08 at 06:35 PM

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

damn!! too slow!!!