speaking software (1 Viewer)

[Rahul]

is there any software out there that can speak out a bunch of writting?

kind of like simpletext on macs.

is there a better alternative for windows?

 

[McLake]

There is NEVER a better alternative for Windows.

 

[wogboy]

Try this one out:

http://www.readplease.com/

The free version of it is just as good as the paid version IMO.

 

[:: ck ::]

theres a shit one that comes with windows xp i dunno if its worth using coz it cant pronounce stuff written in australian english

 

[Rahul]

checked out the readmeplease ...worked out ok, any other ones that maybe i should check out?

as for the xp one...the speech 'recognotion' software is very bad....never ever use!

 

[wogboy]

theres a shit one that comes with windows xp i dunno if its worth using coz it cant pronounce stuff written in australian english

Do you mean the one that's called Narrator, and is under the Accessibility group? That one's shit because it only reads out individual letters of a word as you type them, not an entire word e.g. if you type "hello" (slowly) then it will say "h" "e" "l" "l" "o", not "hello".

 

[fatmuscle]

there's one that converts it into MP3 aswell as reading it out.

Forgot what it's called

don't think it was brilliant though.

 

[Rahul]

oscar sound recorder?

 

[:: ck ::]

Originally posted by wogboy
Do you mean the one that's called Narrator, and is under the Accessibility group? That one's shit because it only reads out individual letters of a word as you type them, not an entire word e.g. if you type "hello" (slowly) then it will say "h" "e" "l" "l" "o", not "hello".

no theres one i cant remmeber where it is but it reads out entire sentences to u in some gay "microsoft sam" voice

 

[:: ck ::]

btw rahul i just found this program called "ibm viavoice"

it may be wot ur looking for

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/speech/

umm its 300mb msg me if u want where to get it

 

[Rahul]

300mb thats too much for me (56k)
anyways it wasnt exactly wat i was lookin for. i have wat i need, but thanks anyways ryan.

 

[:: ck ::]

np~

 

[Fosweb]

doesnt word xp (office xp) have text to speech capabilities?

doesnt that mean that you could use word for that?

 

[:: ck ::]

i think its windows xp > language settings or something ?

anyways ive tried it... its pretty shocking and annoying trying to use it

 

[Rahul]

i used the one that wogboy pointed out, "read please" it isnt bad.

 

[Dash]

This just shows how lazy human beings are becoming...

First we don't want to write, we want to type
Now we don't even wanna type, we want to speak...

What will the think of next?

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by Fosweb
doesnt word xp (office xp) have text to speech capabilities?

doesnt that mean that you could use word for that?

it is accurate only if you have a good USB mic and speak in an american accent (if you didn't buy it)

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

For anyone with *nix and is interested in the programming side of things:

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/


Have fun. (By the way, to any UTS-ers, this is the speech system that was shown off in DCA today.)

 

[ezzy85]

ive got one called TextAloud.MP3.v1.459. i havent installed it yet so i cant tell you if its good. its only 5megs, so you can try searching for that.

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by Dash
Now we don't even wanna type, we want to speak...

what are you trying to say??

the prog i was looking for, reads out typed text. doesnt take down what i type

way to bring back an old thread...