Hey, I wasn't sure who to ask about this so I was hoping you guys would be able to give me a hand.
Heres the problem, I am dyslexic and as a result a slow reader, I am scanning in books for my homework in TXT format (my teacher showed me how)
However the program at school (that reads work aloud) requires i be at school and I'd also like to do some work at home.
Before I have used Babel fish, i just copied and pasted the work in and it would read it (in a bad translator voice but oh well i got the gist)
Since then my computer has crashed, i lost the babelfish program and the demo CD i got it from lost so I'm a little stuck. My google searches have been a bit confusing as i'm not sure of the phrase to search for.
So anyway does anyone know a program from the net either as a demo or shareware or something not too costly that would do this. ???
Also I have found a computer voice option in windows control panel and a friend has hinted that perhaps that can be used through word or otherwise without me having to download a completly new program, but i'm stuck again.
Thank you very much for reading, it probably seems like a stupid question, but it would really help me out (heck i could also use it for big chunks of the AGS manual yay)
Gemmalah
Look for Microsoft TalkIt. It can read .txt files
Although I'm pretty sure that Word can do it. I just don't remember how.
The Opera browser has built-in support for this, I believe: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/voice/
they do. though I never got them working, not that I wanted to though ;)
Google: open source text to speech (http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+text+to+speech+&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official)
Pay particular attention to the ones on source forge.
if anyone is interested i searched up talkit and found this link
http://ephestione.altervista.org/ephestione/main.htm?nfos/TalkitRecorderHowTo.htm
its quite interesting to anyone with the same query and can do loads of voices apparantly.