text to speech driving?

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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.

 

[Ed Cryer]

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

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

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).

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

Ed

Thanks, Narrator was the word I'd forgotten.

 

[Ed Cryer]

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).
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