Which are the best shareware speach programs out there?

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:20 am

I'm looking something that may read correctly in English, I'm teaching English to my wife, and would like to give here some fresh help. Cheers.

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:45 am

Hi Nestor, me again

Go to http://members.lycos.co.uk/electronicadub/index.htm and then go to the Pulsar page. There is a zip file called talkbox.zip.

Unzip it into a temp folder then run setup.exe. When you unzip it have the 'Use folder names' checkbox ticked.

This is something I knocked up in Visual Basic a while ago. It does not have too good a GUI, but its free and it works.

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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:41 am

Thanks!

BTW, nice page...

I didn't know you were into it...

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:15 am

Oh my! Prody Parrot revisited

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:46 am

Hi hope that Nestors wife don´t speak like a text to speech program after she got her english lessons.

Look here Nestor, this is a good sounding text to speech program, Neil and I used it for our Starchaser speech, but don´t click on the faces of the speechers!!

http://69.41.241.235/rpfree.php

Good luck with the lessons.

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Music starts where any language ends

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Post by **Neil B** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:33 am

Have a look at Read Please:

http://www.readplease.com

I'm using it at the moment. It's okay, although you have to play around with the spelling sometimes to get the exact pronunciation.
You'll find some demo mp3 extracts on the website

Also, check out Soylent Green's "1st Submission" in the music forum for more info

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:03 am

That´s funny. Now Nestor can choose between two links to the same program/side.

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:06 am

I remember there was an old program called Microsoft Talkit (it wasn't developed my MS, they licensed it from someone) which was actually very cool (and at times insanely hilarious).. I don't know how flexible it is for reading large documents but it might be worth a try.. you'll have to Google a bit for it.The same technology recently resurfaced in Fruity Loops (Fruity Speech!).

Theres also a few web-based text-speech converters (usually demo's for full products to buy and use on your own PC) which could possibly be used for your purposes.. could also be worth a try.

Sorry for lack of links, I just woke up and I need to get to work