text to vocal program needed
 

Not sure if this is in the right place so feel free to move it :)

What I am looking for is a free ( if poss ) text to voice program, i.e. you type the text you want and the program synthasizes a voice. Any idea's, it would be nice to have different vocals and dialects but :shrug: beggars can't be choosers.

Was there one included into XP home, seem to remember seeing one somewhere :confused:

Thanks

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Have a look at http://www.readplease.com/

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They look something like I was after, thanks will have a better look at them and see if anyone else has a link :)

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Festival is good, I use it. It even speaks in Welsh :D. Only problem is is that it's quite a complicated build for windows systems.

Edit, ah-ha, have found a precompiled windows binary here , it's stored as a tarball, if you don't have the software to untar it, let me know and I'll make a zipfile for you...that's if you choose to try it anyway.

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I use Speakonia download from here...http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/
easy to use / setup.

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I use TextHelp, but its not free :(

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WinXP has some text to speech functions built in.

Have a look here.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

(personally few things annoy me more than my computer talking to me - lexmark printers - yuk)

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Thanks to all for the tips \ links, I just got back from working away so sorry for the late response. Erol, it's not for my p.c. that I want it, just got myself a " smartphone " that I want to customise with different " messages " from different people, and different message types, mail, sms, mms, etc etc, thanks again to all :)

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if this is any use , xp home includes the narrator :erm:

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XP has an adequate text to speech, if you can put up with the accents!

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the best free text to vocal program is this one

Speakonia