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
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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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