[bookshare-discuss] Re: Kurzweil saves the day!
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:19:31 -0400
Can we say,
Um, told yah, smile.
Wink, glad to know you are joining the family Ann.
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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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vrstream@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:35 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Kurzweil saves the day!
Hi all,
I know that this will come as a shock to some of you, but I have just
discovered Kurzweil 1000. I have been limping along with its competitor
for years, and finally, I got a demo! I started using it, and I'm not
going back, not ever! I looked in my coffers, and there was enough money
to purchase the software! So, that's what I did!
Here's a little trick I discovered. Folks, if you don't like the voice on
the Stream, and you're wanting to read txt files or DAISY files from
Bookshare, run 'em through Kurzweil's speak to MP3 feature with it's
wonderful, smooth, easy-listening voice! Works like a charm! I chose to
have Kurzweil make mp3's of fifty-page units, which works out to be about
as much as comes on a side of a cassette. The Kurzweil software labels
the files properly, and all you do is plunk them in a folder under
$vrother Books, and boom! You've got a voice that's ten, nay an hundred
times better than Samantha or Tom, and you're good to go!
I just figured other people might want to know this fact. If you have
Kurzweil, and even if you don't, you can get something called Text Aloud
and purchase one of their voices for a modest fee. Convert your files
with that, and you're good to go on the Stream! Oh, I'm a happy camper, a
really, really happy camper!
Ecstatic in Rochester,
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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