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

20 Dec 07 - 01:28 PM (#2219779)
Subject: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: SouthernCelt

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


20 Dec 07 - 04:40 PM (#2219893)
Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Bill D

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.


20 Dec 07 - 04:49 PM (#2219899)
Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)

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


20 Dec 07 - 04:57 PM (#2219906)
Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: GUEST

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.


20 Dec 07 - 05:07 PM (#2219913)
Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)

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

Mick


20 Dec 07 - 05:49 PM (#2219936)
Subject: RE: Tech: Neat program on 'give away of the day'
From: Jack Campin

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