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16 Apr 2006, 19:54
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text to speech converters
Can anyone recommend any good ones? im becoming a bit fustrated that such tools don't exist in word/swriter. It'd be really useful If you've writen a speech or have completed a large essay and want read back to you.
What id like is something that takes into account grammar and hopefully has different accent plugins.
Does any device that i won't have to pay for exist?
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16 Apr 2006, 19:55
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Re: text to speech converters
edit : i was sure windows had something built in for this
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16 Apr 2006, 19:56
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Re: text to speech converters
that adds all kinds of faggotry i don't want
edit to your edit
accesssibility options and narrator does all kinds of shit on the OS itself but afaik doesn't read out office (yay for integration)
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16 Apr 2006, 20:02
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Re: text to speech converters
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Narrator Does Not Work with any Microsoft Office 2000 Programs
If you need to use text-to-speech functionality with Office 2000 programs, you may need to obtain a more robust, third-party Text-to-Speech program.
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16 Apr 2006, 20:03
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Re: text to speech converters
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16 Apr 2006, 20:28
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Re: text to speech converters
hey, if you find one with decent accent plugins, be sure to send a link to Hollywood.
Those incompetent *'**s couldn't do a something-almost-near-to-somewhat-believable foreign accent if their lives depended on it
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16 Apr 2006, 20:50
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Re: text to speech converters
When i toyed around with the tools of Mac OS X, there was a pretty neat text2speech tool with different selectable voices integrated. I dont know how nice the integration with applications is though.
If your problem is that you just cant have it read from your Office-App, why not just copy all text into a plain textfile? I doubt the text2speech software would make use of the formatting anyhow :O
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16 Apr 2006, 21:26
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Re: text to speech converters
Copy/Pasting into notepad and pressing ctrl-shift-space does indeed work yes.. if making that horrible voice do something counts as 'work' that is.
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16 Apr 2006, 22:00
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Re: text to speech converters
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17 Apr 2006, 10:21
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Re: text to speech converters
i have used a program called supernova by ... um, dolphin software i think, most of the voices are crap but if you fiddle a lot you can make it bearable, however, this software (iirc) is rather expensive, so im not a lot of help really
EDIT: unless of course you have a friend who already has a legitimate copy that they could uninstall from their system and lend you for a few days so that you werent breaking the single user licence agreement ofc
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17 Apr 2006, 18:03
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Re: text to speech converters
Adobe Reader can read things out to you, so print your .doc to .pdf and use that?
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17 Apr 2006, 19:30
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Re: text to speech converters
thank you for all your suggestions, unfortunately they all rely on sephen hawking making retard noises that poorly mimmick speech
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17 Apr 2006, 21:12
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cynic
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Re: text to speech converters
as i said, if you can get hold of supernova, you can choose from a range of different voices etc, and some of them arent bad
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