text to speech driving?

I'm favourably impressed by Win7|Adobe|text-to-speech.

With a bit of practice you can lie down and understand Anna
reading your text to you.

And if you fall asleep, that's OK too.

Now I read that the text-to-speech capability is not part of
Adobe, but is part of the Win7 OS. Which means that you
should be able to drive it with your own, non-pdf text.

Has onyone done this?

Thanks for any guidance.

== Chris Glur.

On 01/10/2011 05:01, wrote:
> I'm favourably impressed by Win7|Adobe|text-to-speech.
>
> With a bit of practice you can lie down and understand Anna
> reading your text to you.
>
> And if you fall asleep, that's OK too.
>
> Now I read that the text-to-speech capability is not part of
> Adobe, but is part of the Win7 OS. Which means that you
> should be able to drive it with your own, non-pdf text.
>
> Has onyone done this?
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
> == Chris Glur.
>
>

Yes. Just launch Narrator from Ease of Access Centre. Then open a
Notepad document.

Ed

In message <j66p2d$cif$>, Ed Cryer
<> writes:
>On 01/10/2011 05:01, wrote:
>> I'm favourably impressed by Win7|Adobe|text-to-speech.
>>
>> With a bit of practice you can lie down and understand Anna
>> reading your text to you.
>>
>> And if you fall asleep, that's OK too.
>>
>> Now I read that the text-to-speech capability is not part of
>> Adobe, but is part of the Win7 OS. Which means that you
>> should be able to drive it with your own, non-pdf text.

TTS has actually been there since XP (and you can download extra voices
too; also, even if you don't, there's more than Anna by default, or at
least I assume there will be in 7 - in XP, there's Microsoft Mary,
Microsoft Mike, and Microsoft Sam, all under Speech in Control Panel).
>>
>> Has onyone done this?
>>
>> Thanks for any guidance.
>>
>> == Chris Glur.
>>
>>
>
>Yes. Just launch Narrator from Ease of Access Centre. Then open a
>Notepad document.
>
>Ed
>
Thanks, Narrator was the word I'd forgotten.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I am dyslexic Borg. Prepare to have your arse laminated. (from an undergrad at
Bristol Uni, via Brennig Jones.)

On 01/10/2011 12:02, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <j66p2d$cif$>, Ed Cryer
> <> writes:
>> On 01/10/2011 05:01, wrote:
>>> I'm favourably impressed by Win7|Adobe|text-to-speech.
>>>
>>> With a bit of practice you can lie down and understand Anna
>>> reading your text to you.
>>>
>>> And if you fall asleep, that's OK too.
>>>
>>> Now I read that the text-to-speech capability is not part of
>>> Adobe, but is part of the Win7 OS. Which means that you
>>> should be able to drive it with your own, non-pdf text.
>
> TTS has actually been there since XP (and you can download extra voices
> too; also, even if you don't, there's more than Anna by default, or at
> least I assume there will be in 7 - in XP, there's Microsoft Mary,
> Microsoft Mike, and Microsoft Sam, all under Speech in Control Panel).
>>>
>>> Has onyone done this?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any guidance.
>>>
>>> == Chris Glur.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes. Just launch Narrator from Ease of Access Centre. Then open a
>> Notepad document.
>>
>> Ed
>>
> Thanks, Narrator was the word I'd forgotten.

While rooting in Ease of Access I found Speech Recognition.
It seems to be quite a well developed package, with how to train Win7 to
better recognise your accent.

I've got a decent microphone in a box upstairs. I'll have a look at that
when I get some time.

Ed