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Searching for the best read-aloud software
nosh:
Your installed voices should show up in the Control Panel's 'Speech' applet.
I've tried a few TTS players and the installed voices show up fine under all of them.
I should have mentioned this earlier, DSpeech is a really nice free app in this category.
It even does some things most commercial TTS players can't (eg: recording conversations involving more than one voice).
neel:
Just thought I would throw WordTalk into the mix.
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk
This is a macro for Microsoft Word that shows a toolbar allowing you to read word, sentence, paragraph, selection etc. It also contains a talking spell checker and a thesaurus. Originally developed to help dyslexic children by a teacher in Scotland, and distributed free to anyone who wants it. I did hear a rumour that there would be a version allowing you to save output to audio file, but I don't know if that is the version available at the moment.
It also may be worth having a browse on http://www.oatsoft.org/ for other TTS programs...
Neel
DocSavage:
This is an excellent thread. Thanks for your responses. Can you give a couple of sites where voices are sold?
Curt:
http://www.downloadatoz.com/home-education_directory/at-t-natural-voices-esellerate/
+ check also http://www.naturalreaders.com/order_information.htm
+ http://www.zero2000.com/ace-buddy/index.html
+ http://www.ablereader.com/
+ many many others... [Edit: MANY others!
nosh:
Try the Nextup link, it's mentioned in the very first post of this thread.
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