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From: CaliforniaRural on 19 Oct 2007 18:07
I am working with Balabolka

This is the closest thing to Read Please I have found.

It has one small trick in set up. Click on "View" with your mouse,
Next click on "Font and Colors". I have chosen to have yellow text at
size 24. My background color is blue. I have a highlighting color of
red. My selection color is orange. You will be able to choose the
colors you want. Chose what ever makes your reading easier. I was
terribly disappointed until I chose these colors.

Next, you can operate Balobolka with a mouse if you want to. However,
if you want more text display you can learn to use the F keys. This
will allow you to make your full screen into a text area. F5 will
start it reading. F7 will make the reading stop.




From: CaliforniaRural on 20 Oct 2007 08:14
Balabolka

This is my favorote for reading files on my computor.
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

dspeech

I am just testing this again. It seems good for text to sound file
conversion. It can batch convert text to mp3.
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/

E-Text Reader IGT

This is the one I am getting ready to stop using. It can save papers
in formats other than plain text. Useful if you don't want to mess up
the lay out of a paper. I have not found the translation it advertises
as limited. Then I don't have any use for this. It also has the voices
and all the parts of a speech program if your computer does not have
it.
http://www.download.com/3000-2279-10285673.html

From: Elf Wizard on 20 Oct 2007 08:56
On Oct 19, 11:16 pm, "Martin" <happygu...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for some simple software that will "speak" the words written in
> notepad for me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin

Martin! :-)

Just 2 more to try:

Deskbot (supports ms agents): http://www.bellcraft.com/deskbot/
http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/Recommended_Text_to_Speech_Software
http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/OtherText2SpeechSoftware

Speakonia (free registration): http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4


Greets!!!
Giorgos. :-)

From: Clive Savage on 21 Oct 2007 19:20
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:14:54 -0700, CaliforniaRural(a)yahoo.com wrote:

>Balabolka
>
>This is my favorote for reading files on my computor.
>http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
>
>dspeech
>
>I am just testing this again. It seems good for text to sound file
>conversion. It can batch convert text to mp3.
>http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
>
>E-Text Reader IGT
>
>This is the one I am getting ready to stop using. It can save papers
>in formats other than plain text. Useful if you don't want to mess up
>the lay out of a paper. I have not found the translation it advertises
>as limited. Then I don't have any use for this. It also has the voices
>and all the parts of a speech program if your computer does not have
>it.
> http://www.download.com/3000-2279-10285673.html

This has got me thinking, are there any with more natural speech,
rather than MS one`s? (I know Vista has a better one, but I don`t like
Vista)

Could you record your phonmes for use with text to speech?, would be
rather cool to use your own voice or a Celbs voice maybe.

Bye for now.

Clive.
From: Susan Bugher on 22 Oct 2007 13:20
Clive Savage wrote:

> This has got me thinking, are there any with more natural speech,
> rather than MS one`s? (I know Vista has a better one, but I don`t like
> Vista)

AFAIK this page pretty well covers the field re free voices:
http://www.datafurnace.net.au/sayzme/html/voices.html

Susan
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