Text to speech: how?

[NoHtmlMailsPlease]

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.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

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.

 

[Paul]

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/Windows7/Hear-text-read-aloud-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

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

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 (John)]

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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.])

 

[Ed Cryer]

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

 

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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.