Text to speech

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Lost at Home said:
: you could try analogX Say It. Also freeware.
: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm
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: > Are their any open source text to speech programs for the blind?
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This program presupposes the blind person knows how to type... Quote fromthe
website:
" Inspired by that evil device many of us were tormented by as children,
the Speak&Spell, AnalogX SayIt gives your computer a synthesized voice to
rival that of Colossus (from the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project). Type
in any word or phrase, set the sliders to the appropriate settings, and
click the 'Render' button - out pops a nice little wave file. Or, if you are
just playing around, use the 'Preview' button an hear what it sounds like.
It's that simple.
AnalogX SayIt outputs 16-bit wave files, and can handle phrases up to
500 characters, more than enough for your average computer speech needs."
 
: > Are their any open source text to speech programs for the blind?

Microsoft Speech API (SAPI 5.1) is an SDK for making text-to-speech, voice
recognition, and (I think) voice command. It's free and comes with lots of
demo apps, but I am personally on the look-out for an open-source
alternative that is more platform-independent. I think I found one,
too--[http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech/index.html]! I just
recently found it and this is the first time I've even come back to it to
read.

In other words, I may be wrong about it being FREE opensource, but it was my
impression that it is free.
AnalogX has a pathetic voice - robotic and hard to understand. Don't bother
with it.

A much better deal is with the freebee prog YRead from www.spacejock.com.
Its voice is also poor but download the M$ voice engine - link given there
and select Mike to get a very tolerable read.
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Yeah, that's typical. All the computer "voices" are like that.

Like I said before, SAPI 5.1 SDK comes with free apps. Many programs and
Downloads.com can use MS Agents to "read" text, as well. The GutenbergReader
uses MS Agents to read Project Gutenberg e-texts (though I have not had
complete success yet, but it seems to work).

Best of all, though--Acrobat Reader 6 can "read" PDF files to you, either a
page-at-a-time or all of it (with the ability to pause, if you remember the
keystroke combination).


Hope That Helps,
Aaron
 
message : http://www.readplease.com works okay for the freeware version, but I am
: not sure how easy it would be for a blind person to use.
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: > Are their any open source text to speech programs for the blind?
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Thanks everyone I appreciate the links and advice.
 
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