Text to Speech

get out of windows ... use Ubuntu ( also FREE ) ... I have a free txt2spk and use it as I please !

My first experience of text to speech:
My friends girlfriend had an older brother who was a computer nerd (mid 80's) & he spent a lot of money on his Sinclair Spectrum. He bought the Currah Speech software package.

We visited one night & he had mastered the technology after many days of programming & tweaking...

First words out of the Sinclair stupor-computer..

"piss flaps"

It was like an hilarious version of 2001 a Space Odyssey.

We spent the entire evening crying laughing & teaching this pinnacle of technological genius how to swear.

Good times!

You d think that Bill Gates would put a good... free...
text to speech voice up on the net for everyone to use

... instead of spending his millions on vaccines for Africa
and other meaningless charities.


He could also put a good, free, antivirus software up there too........
why does nt he spend some money helping to make life easier for all his M soft users ?




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Last Edited by tim2003 on 05/07/2012 11:25 AM

Will Ubunto work with XP ?

Different OS, but you can install both and run a dual boot.

I await the day a 'real' speech to text' is developed.

I Love Audio Books on a portable MP3 player.

Usually I listen to them while doing some work and I get lost in the book while doing mindless tasks.


Right now ive got The Once and Future King.


But I have all kinds of Alchemy text stuff that is tedious to read but would be great to listen to with real good Text to Speech.

[link to www.ispeech.org]

Use a mac and with only 1 klick the OS will do it for you

Yeah Tessa has a hot voice

whats the problem with microsoft's version that comes free with windows?

Its total crap



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Interesting, looks like I can cut and paste in
some text and get a minute long mpg out of the system
(on a free account )

Better than nothing , but why does nt Bill Gates,
or Richard Branson spend a bit of cash and put up
a free Text to Speech software that everyone can use ?

Branson will spend $500,000 on fuel for his space tourism
...................that's insane and only for elitist Hollywood so called celebs .
( maybe Bill Gates will be on the innaugural flight ? )




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Last Edited by tim2003 on 05/28/2012 03:47 AM

Too much information



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Last Edited by tim2003 on 05/21/2012 04:37 PM

I use this...
[link to www.e-speaking.com]
Find it great.

My Kindle has got pretty good text to speech voices
esp the female voice........
I can paste any text into there and it will read it all to me



.... but, computors have been going for 20 years or more
should nt a good text to speech facility be
a basic part of the computor build ?

Or at least there should be some free text to speech software
out there that will read text to a high standard..
e mails, essays, novels.... everything.

At work we use Jaws for the old coots that cant see too well.

natural reader is free and excellent,can change the tempo is the voice is hard to grasp,I think its awesome

Not free, but the best and most natural sounding text to speech I came across (I recommend 'Salli's voice).

[link to www.ivona.com]

Yes IVona seems like the hottest deal on the block

esp the english accent Amy ....

go check it out 30 days for free





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great news guys ... at last a text to speech
on the net .. that lets you paste in
massive amounts of text and it will read it back...

( I just posted 3000 words ! )

you can record the reading live with audacity and make
an mp3 file

go here
[link to www.yakitome.com]

check out the Audrey voice.... not quite as good as
Amy from Ivona ... but a good voice nevertheless...

Big up to Yakitome !

Neat. Don't know what I'd use it for though.

There is, its built into Windows 7 and Windows 8. It works ok and can be used for many things as well as dictation. I use it to write my novels of which I have had three published so far.

LOl, sorry, got that round the wrong way. :-)

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