[bookcourier] Re: Simulating DoubleTalk without a BookCourier
- From: Ted Shelly <tshelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 20:13:51 -0400
Kurzweil can save files to any of the formats it supports. When you open a
file in Kurzweil, it converts it into its own format, then you can save it
as any of the formats, including DAISY (the text-only DAISY, not the audio
DAISY).
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[mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 5:28 PM
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Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Simulating DoubleTalk without a BookCourier
Tim
I don't think Kurzweil will turn a Bookshare .brf file into a daisy file.
You would need to unpick the grade 2 braille first and I don't think
Kurzweil will allow you to save a brf file as a txt file. I could be wrong -
of course!
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Grady" <tgrady@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:24 PM
Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Simulating DoubleTalk without a BookCourier
Yea, I forgot about Kurzweil as I use the Apple now and use a little
utility called Ghostreader to turn my text files into mp3s. I'm not
crazy about any of the SAPI voices though, so even if I had access to
Kurzweil I wouldn't use it, but since Kurzweil can make DAISY files,
can it put the tts to a bookshare book?
On May 1, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Shelley Rhodes wrote:
> Text Aloud or Text to Audio both have this feature and benefit.
> Also if you have it ahem, Kurzweil 1000 from version 7 and up will
> make MP3 or Wav files of any file you ask of it and it will break
> the book into "reasonable" chunks." You can also use any speech
> engine installed on your computer, so I have eliquence, Scansoft,
> ATT natural voices, Voiceware. I am not positive but I believe that
> Openbook offers this feature too.
>
> There is software out there called Read Please that will read text
> files in a window. And there is Nonvisual Desktop Access With
> Speech but I haven't played much with this application. Kurzweil
> also in version 11 can make daisy files.
>
> You can purchase voices to add on and find free ones at
>
> www.nextup.com the makers of Text aloud.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
> And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog
> guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs for the Blind
> Alumni Association
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>
> The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment
> thought of their act as violence;
> rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated
> righteousness.
> The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever
> committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Campbell, Wiley L. (Portland)"
> <Wiley.Campbell@xxxxxx
> >
> To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:37 PM
> 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.
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