Anyone know of a program that reads words from a text page, so it can be recorded?

[Relf Lauren]

Anyone?


Relf Lauren

 

[Danlz]

There's a web browser for Americans with Disabilities called JAWS, available from IBM. You can find the URL with a JAWS search in Excite, Yahoo, etc.

 

[dkozloski]

Years ago there used to be a text to speech program that came bundled with all the old SoundBlaster cards. It was pretty bad but it was understandable. Maybe you could get an oldtimer to look through his junk box.

 

[Windogg]

Dr Sbaitso?

Windogg

 

[Bryan]

IBM does not make JAWS. Freedom Scientific/Henter-Joyce does. Try here.

Also, JAWS is a screen reader for Windows, not a browser. You can also try S**t Talker.

 

[Stark]

There used to be a program from microsoft called "Voice." It came out around the same time as 95b/ie4. If you've heard the Radiohead song with the robotic "fitter, happier, more productive" words, it sounded exactly the same. It actually had different voices to choose from and that was just one of several.

 

[dkozloski]

Windogg, Dr. Sbaitso was on the same disk all right. He answered questions. I think that the other thing was just called "text to speech".

 

[Modus]

This is a pretty cool site. Try making it say naughty words Hours of fun for the whole family!

Modus

 

[Danlz]

Yeppers, JAWS is hj. IBM has HomePageReader here:IBM.

 

[Stark]

check this out at the microsoft site... it automatically converts up to 100 characters to a wav file... fun fun fun
MS Research

 

[Relf Lauren]

Thanks guys...I was looking for a program similar to the Mac's notepad program (which also reads your text in a bunch of different types of voices)...

Relf Lauren

 

[dkozloski]

Bell labs has on-line speech at www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html

 

[Oyeve]

Go to www.download.com

Do a search on speech and youll get tons of hits.

 

[Auric]

There are many simple programs that use MS's Agent and Speech core like Talking Email that can read anything copied to the clipboard. The recording would have to be done manually though. Poke around.

 

[LiekOMG]

The old SoundBlaster program that I used to use was called Monologue 16bit (SP?). Sure the voice sounded like a robot, but it worked fairly well. All you had to do was select the text to be read, and copy it to the clipboard. The program would then read the entire thing to you.

 

[Oyeve]

I use textaloud mp3. It does all that you are asking for and even will record out into mp3. Go to
www.nextuptech.com