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Geo-King
05-25-2005, 01:39 PM
Anyone here know of a good (free) text to speech program that doesn’t sound so robotic. I tried “read please” but there is a text limit and the one that comes with windows stops after 10 min.

I sometimes like to copy and paste an e-book in to note pad, put on some head phones and relax.


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oops can you move this to the software forum thanks...
Usurper
05-25-2005, 02:31 PM
Acrobat Reader 7 does text to speech. It's robotic, but it's free, and fairly capable of pronouncing difficult words from what I've seen. OpenOffice can save as pdf, and there are many (smaller) freeware progs that do as well.
GodBlitZor
05-25-2005, 02:59 PM
u can get a plugin for that in Fire Fox
supermeerkat
05-25-2005, 03:57 PM
GodBlitZor said:
u can get a plugin for that in Fire Fox



which can be found here (http://foxyvoice.kenche.info/)
Geo-King
05-25-2005, 05:22 PM
Thanks for your help guys, everything works great but now I am looking for free realistic voices to download.

It seems that AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Engine
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
is the best but its not free...
Wamplet
05-25-2005, 07:36 PM
I recommend BONZI BUDDY! \o
Geo-King
05-26-2005, 03:33 AM
OH! GOD! NO!!!!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif
IwantMORE
05-26-2005, 07:02 AM
OS X voices built in http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I think were still a few years away from realy realalistic text to voice but when it comes it will be great http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Wamplet
05-26-2005, 09:25 AM
Geo-King said:
OH! GOD! NO!!!!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif



That program haunted my boss for a long ass time. This was back when spyware/adware was just a fetus.
Geo-King
05-26-2005, 03:49 PM
IwantMORE said:
OS X voices built in http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I think were still a few years away from realy realalistic text to voice but when it comes it will be great http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif



Have you heard the AT&T Natural Voices demo. I say thats very realistic but it's not free...