I like Kurzweil, you can make the files whatever lenth you want so you can break a book up into several parts. I used to do this when I had my ipod. It's nice to just use the BC and not worry about it.
Christine----- Original Message ----- From: "Campbell, Wiley L. (Portland)" <Wiley.Campbell@xxxxxx>
To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:37 AM Subject: [bookcourier] Simulating DoubleTalk without a BookCourier I know it's a work around, but I vaguely recall hearing about methods to convert txt files to audio using a screen reader, or some other text to audio utility? E. G. I can adjust my JAWS voice to certainly read as well or better than DoubleTalk, and I could record JAWS reading a text file to an audio format like mp3; Then load that on a Stream or PlexTalk and at least have good speech quality for text file reading without relying on the built in TTS. Is there some simpler utility / method that accomplishes the same result? Especially a method that can handle large text files like books? And perhaps even convert text files to one of the DAISY audio formats that a Stream or PlexTalk could use, rather than just trying to create huge mp3 files.
