[JAWSLite] Re: accessible text to mp3

Hi, Mohammed and greetings to all:
Though I don't have a direct answer to your question, you make an excellent point about Eloquence. On December 4, 2006, I posted a message to the yahoogroups JAWS list shortly after I had installed and tried out the RealSpeak synthesizer I received with JAWS 8. The subject of my post at that time was Raining on the RealSpeak Parade. I agree with you, Mohammed, about Eloquence. Here is what I said at that time. 

Greetings to all:
The old saying goes that it's difference of opinion that makes horse races. A few folks on this list have been very excited about the addition of the RealSpeak Sapi5 Solo Synthesizer to the new JFW8. Well, here I come to express just the opposite viewpoint and to say that I can not share in the enthusiasm. In fact, after having installed it and tried it out, I have gone so far as to remove it once again from my computer. I'm writing this to make it known that not everyone necessarily likes it. What are the reasons I don't like it? Let me try to tell you all why. If you simply consider only the actual quality of the voices themselves, you would have to be enthusiastic, because they are of announcer quality. As far as just the vocal quality itself, these synthesized voices have never yet been equaled. But just hearing the vocal quality alone is not the whole story of what synthesized speech should be. It doesn't stop there. Because while Eloquence does not have the vocal quality of RealSpeak, it does a much better job of handling something just as (and, maybe more) important which is the inflection, the cadence and the ultimate emotionality of the reading. I find the RealSpeak speech to be rather stilted and unnatural. You can almost hear the speech being pieced together. The phrasing and the emphasis is often all wrong. At times, some words seem to get almost swallowed up and mumbled over. Even with its poorer actual voice quality, I still feel that Eloquence wins hands down when it comes to capturing the emotional eexperience and communicating the real meaning of what I am trying to read. I think FS should not have added this product to JAWS until some of the inflection issues became handled in a more advanced manner than they are at present. Sorry, folks! At 08:04 PM 3/30/2007 +0700, you wrote: 
HI!

Does anyone know of an accessible program which can convert text to mp3
using via voice/eloquence?

God willing, I'll be away from computers for about 4 months to a year and I
definitely do have many books to read.

So far I only like and understand eloquence the most in comparison with any
other speech synth.

Thanks in advance

Muhammad Islah Busakorn
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