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Title: Text to Speech
Post by: Reno on September 23, 2004, 00:26

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?

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Reno on September 24, 2004, 23:20

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

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Simon on September 24, 2004, 23:44

Sorry Bob, I don't know.   ;D

But one of the techies might, if we can rouse one from their slumber!  ;) :D

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: joudi on September 24, 2004, 23:57

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/

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Sandra on September 25, 2004, 00:08

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  ;D ;D ;D

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

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Simon on September 25, 2004, 09:23

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.

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Hiatus on September 25, 2004, 17:59

Another one I found was Cool Speech.

http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm (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!  ::)

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Sandra on September 25, 2004, 23:44

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

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: Reno on September 26, 2004, 04:05

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

Title: Re:Text to Speech
Post by: joudi on September 26, 2004, 04:38

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).