text to vocal program needed
24-03-2004, 20:22
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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  beggars can't be choosers.
Was there one included into XP home, seem to remember seeing one somewhere 
Thanks
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24-03-2004, 20:42
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Re: text to vocal program needed
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24-03-2004, 20:48
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Re: text to vocal program needed
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
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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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25-03-2004, 00:26
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Re: text to vocal program needed
Festival is good, I use it. It even speaks in Welsh  . 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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25-03-2004, 20:02
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Re: text to vocal program needed
I use Speakonia download from here... http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/
easy to use / setup.
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25-03-2004, 21:14
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Re: text to vocal program needed
I use TextHelp, but its not free 
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25-03-2004, 21:36
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Re: text to vocal program needed
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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27-03-2004, 16:54
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Re: text to vocal program needed
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Originally Posted by erol
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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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27-03-2004, 17:07
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Re: text to vocal program needed
if this is any use , xp home includes the narrator 
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30-03-2004, 15:02
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Re: text to vocal program needed
XP has an adequate text to speech, if you can put up with the accents!
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31-03-2004, 00:34
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Re: text to vocal program needed
the best free text to vocal program is this one
Speakonia
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