mr henderson
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:12 PM |
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Text to speech program?
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
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Pdlewis
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:16 PM |
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its built into the accesability options in windows
Called screen reader i think
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eznfrank
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:17 PM |
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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.
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blakep82
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:19 PM |
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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?
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iank
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:23 PM |
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Google suggests http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm
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mr henderson
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:25 PM |
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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
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mr henderson
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:36 PM |
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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
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JeffHs
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 05:38 PM |
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http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
I think this does what you want
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 06:34 PM |
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The AT&T one is good for small blocks of text. Like this:
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BenB
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| posted on 20/11/08 at 06:35 PM |
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http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
damn!! too slow!!!
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