Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'

Subject: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:28 PM

The web site "giveawayoftheday" has a neat little program called TextAloud that will put text from various documents into audio via a computer generated voice (3 of the them actually, you pick the one to use). The audio can be simply played or saved to a file. The program is free if downloaded and installed (activated) today.

Go to giveawayoftheday
and follow the instructions.

SC

Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:40 PM

I think I already have 2 programs that will do that trick. If anyone sees this thread after the giveaway is over, I can find you one.

Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:49 PM

There are quite a few of these about. Have a look for MBROLA, TexTalk, ReadPlease, SayIt, Freespeech - some of the ones on my machine and these are quite old now (6/7 years looking at the dates), I imagine there are a lot more now.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:57 PM

Festival seems to be a common one on Linux. I believe it can be complied in Windows.

Others I have in my distribtion are mbrola and espeak.

Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 05:07 PM

I seem to have the Festival source on my (Win/XP) machine, but never got round to compiling it!

Mick

Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 05:49 PM

This has been built in to MacOS (use AppleScript) for at least 15 years. Are other systems that far behind?