Text to speech: how?

W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.

Obviously it works with asci input.
So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.

I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
of Adobe.

So how would I use it by inputting plain text?

==TIA.

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:30:58 +0200, NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:

> W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.
>
> Obviously it works with asci input.
> So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.
>
> I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
> of Adobe.
>
> So how would I use it by inputting plain text?
>
> ==TIA.

If nothing else comes to light, might I suggest this awkward scheme?

Download one of the free PDF printers, such as CutePDF, and print the
text file to PDF for input to the Adobe software.

I use CutePDF, and I know it produces searchable text in its files. I
would guess that the other similar programs, or at least some of them,
do the same.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:
> W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.
>
> Obviously it works with asci input.
> So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.
>
> I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
> of Adobe.
> So how would I use it by inputting plain text?
>
> ==TIA.
>

A good search keyword, is "accessibility".

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows7/

In this case, the "narrator" looks interesting.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/W...-with-Narrator

Tell us what it sounds like :-) Early speech synthesis, everything
sounded like "Steven Hawking", and it's always interesting to
see if they made any progress on that aspect of TTS.

Paul

In message <j5t0g3$2ge$>, NoHtmlMailsPlease
<> writes:
>W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.
>
>Obviously it works with asci input.
>So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.
>
>I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
>of Adobe.
>So how would I use it by inputting plain text?
>
>==TIA.
>
I don't know who or what W4 is.

I don't have W7 to hand, but under XP, Start | Settings | Control Panel
| Speech gives a box into which I can put text to be spoken; I'm sure W7
has something at least as good: I thing there's a text-to-speech utility
somewhere. (Maybe putting "speech" into the search function will help.
Or "TTS".)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Grammar is there to help, not hinder."
-- Mark Wallace, APIHNA, 2nd December 2000 (quoted by John Flynn 2000-12-6)

In message <j5tfb7$g8p$>, Paul <>
writes:
[]
>Tell us what it sounds like :-) Early speech synthesis, everything
>sounded like "Steven Hawking", and it's always interesting to
>see if they made any progress on that aspect of TTS.
>
> Paul

They have. Even under XP, you can download extra voices - some free,
some not. (I even found one that was called something like barking dog,
and was a dog barking, roughly in the right rhythm, though you couldn't
actually tell what it was saying! [There was also one called something
like shouty man, who shouted everything.])
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Grammar is there to help, not hinder."
-- Mark Wallace, APIHNA, 2nd December 2000 (quoted by John Flynn 2000-12-6)

On 27/09/2011 23:39, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <j5t0g3$2ge$>, NoHtmlMailsPlease
> <> writes:
>> W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.
>>
>> Obviously it works with asci input.
>> So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.
>>
>> I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
>> of Adobe.
>> So how would I use it by inputting plain text?
>>
>> ==TIA.
>>
> I don't know who or what W4 is.
>
> I don't have W7 to hand, but under XP, Start | Settings | Control Panel
> | Speech gives a box into which I can put text to be spoken; I'm sure W7
> has something at least as good: I thing there's a text-to-speech utility
> somewhere. (Maybe putting "speech" into the search function will help.
> Or "TTS".)

You start the Narrator under Ease of Access. Microsoft Anna is the
provided voice.
Then you open a Notepad with text in it and just highlight the part you
want read out.

I find that voice acceptable enough. I haven't talked to others about
it, though, so that's purely personal.

Ed

In article <j5vdgd$h9u$>, Ed Cryer <> wrote:

> On 27/09/2011 23:39, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> > In message <j5t0g3$2ge$>, NoHtmlMailsPlease
> > <> writes:
> >> W7's Adobe does text-to-speech OK.
> >>
> >> Obviously it works with asci input.
> >> So it is independent of Adobe's pdf format.
> >>
> >> I'm guessing that it's a W4 app and independent
> >> of Adobe.
> >> So how would I use it by inputting plain text?
> >>
> >> ==TIA.
> >>
> > I don't know who or what W4 is.
> >
> > I don't have W7 to hand, but under XP, Start | Settings | Control Panel
> > | Speech gives a box into which I can put text to be spoken; I'm sure W7
> > has something at least as good: I thing there's a text-to-speech utility
> > somewhere. (Maybe putting "speech" into the search function will help.
> > Or "TTS".)
>
> You start the Narrator under Ease of Access. Microsoft Anna is the
> provided voice.
> Then you open a Notepad with text in it and just highlight the part you
> want read out.
>
> I find that voice acceptable enough. I haven't talked to others about
> it, though, so that's purely personal.
>
> Ed
WoW!! Thanks man.
Initially she was only reading the 'Narator Frame', but after
I removed some apps she 'spoke' from the displayed Notepad.