Topic: Text to Speech

[Reno]

My dad has dyslexia and also has developed eye problems as he's grown older. A couple of months ago he ask me if i knew of any programs that would read out the text for him. I know theirs such progs out there but i haven't really seen any. I know windows xp has the narrator, but ive never been able to get it to actually read the text. Although i only played with it for about 15 mins it seemed to only want to read out the title of the application i was fooling with and not the text, for example, in a webpage.

any of you fine techies have any ideas?

[Reno]

its alright to say, "Sorry Bob, I don't know".  :go:

[Simon]

Sorry Bob, I don't know.  

But one of the techies might, if we can rouse one from their slumber!  

[joudi]

I remember that Simon needed something like that about two or three weeks ago.

Will this work with both of you?

(It's free for one month)

http://www.mycomputerspeaks.com/

[Sandra]

That looks like what he needs Joudi, good find  
I had never heard of anything like that its almost Star Trek, or at least Red Dwarf isnt it  

Does anyone know if the speech recognition software has got to a reasonable level of development yet ?

[Simon]

I was just looking for different voices for Windows Narrator, but only for fun.  That looks a good program, Joudi - I wonder what the voices sound like?  I think it's the sort of thing most people would find extremely annoying, but great for those with poor vision.

[Hiatus]

Another one I found was Cool Speech.

http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm

It's alright, but I think it's only a trial version. I used to use it on my laptop (Windows ME). You have to pay for it (or "get" a serial... ) after a number of days/weeks.

It has the ability to read from webpages. There are also a lot of different voices u can d/l.

Hope this helps a bit.

P.S. I know there's a way for the XP text to speech to read websites. I've done it before...just have to remember how!  

[Sandra]

I think that this may do it too Bob, it has a free trial but is a pay for one after the trial  


http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/talkative/features.php

[Reno]

thanks everyone, i guess that means yall can't say,"i can't"  

[joudi]

Sure Bob. It's often said here in France:

"Quand on veut, on peut"

Which means:  "When we want, we can"    

(Probably it exists in a similar meaning in english too).