Text to Speech

xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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Just put the text to speech add on to firefox..... ugh
it is aweful !


there must be something better out there

Isnt it about time all computors came with installed text to speech
as a must have, like a keyboard

its so useful... it makes the computor talk !

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  • whoever,heywhoever,hey Posts: 30,992
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    What is you os? Vista+win7 have it preinstalled.

    On win7, i've just tried this.
    * Windows key
    * type speech
    * change text to speech settings.
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    IM on xp
  • rossi_drrossi_dr Posts: 1,206
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  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    The best text to speech voice Ive ever found
    is here

    ivona
    http://www.ivona.com/index.php

    the voice ..... amy .... wow ! amazing for a computor voice.
    I wish I could go to comp world or somewhere and buy it
    on a cd disc and load in the software.
    I think you can get it for a one week trial

    you 'd think there would be an online text to voice service somewhere with a box you could post in huge chunks of text
    and the comp would read it to you
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    Wow... the amazon kindle text to speech looks and sounds good

    go check it out
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOSD4_RIAk
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    the Kindle 3 has a good text to speech feature...
    a male and female voice
    american accents of course... but they are still good voices and
    will read any text you put in there.

    Good idea is to check out the demo on U tube before you go to buy .
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    that link just leads to a white
    page with a blue icon in the middle.

    You d think there'd be a good text to speech service on line, but the ones Ive found give maybe cut and paste 1000 characters per go
    I mean .. big deal... about one paragraph !
  • xxtimboxxtimbo Posts: 8,870
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    Its such a basic thing, getting the computor to speak
    any text on line, articles, e mail, text you paste in,
    but where is this available ?

    You d think by now it would be a basic on every computor,
    highlight the text, hit key s for speak, then sit back and listen.
  • StigStig Posts: 12,446
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    xxtimbo wrote: »
    Its such a basic thing, getting the computor to speak
    any text on line, articles, e mail, text you paste in,
    but where is this available ?

    You d think by now it would be a basic on every computor,
    highlight the text, hit key s for speak, then sit back and listen.

    So you are bumping your own old thread, where you were given the answer?

    It is on every computer, unless you are using an ancient OS like XP.
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