text-to-speech programs - give a good one

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free would be best. know of any? I am using them in music.

ie.

http://www.myspace.com/saccharineusa

anyone know where I can get "speak-it"?

― Latham Green (mike), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Mac, Windows, Linux or Esoteric?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

I could use one too! For Windows please Ed.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

windows xp

― Latham Green (mike), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

Windows 2.0, plz

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 February 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

ReadPlease is free, with four different computery-voices.

When I used to work at a college's disability services department, we had a program called Kurzweil (either 3000 or 1000) that would read text aloud, and since it was on the college's dime, we could afford the really good voices. If you have access to a university computer lab, they might have it avaiable for use.

― reddening (reddening), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't there some plug-in for some audio player, I had a parrot and a wizard set up on an old PC as virtual DJs.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

I just tried using ReadPlease to listen to ILX threads while working. It isn't working out too well.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

AT&T provide a fun free one on the web with several different voices.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ideally, computer text-to-speech programs should read all text in a comical music-hall Irish brogue, pronounce "fine" as "foin" and substitute "lovely" for all instances of "good".

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

damn -0 where has speak-it gone to!

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

stephen hawking

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know if these are any good but the disability section uses something called Screenreader, not sure if its still going.

The manufacturer 'Texthelp' did a few packages like this.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

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