Has anyone used "Text To Speech" In Vista?

by Corwinnx

Posted: 17 years ago 16 replies

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hey all,

I saw 'text to speech' in my computer. Have any of you checked this feature out yet? What do you think of it?

-Marcus

#text to speech #vista

ryanman 17 years ago

It seems pretty good at times but still makes mistakes though.
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- Corwinnx 17 years ago
  
  does it actually take your 'text' and make some kind of a 'computer generated voice' out of it?
  
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- Norma Holt 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ryanman
  
  It seems pretty good at times but still makes mistakes though.
  
  Wow, I have been contemplating buying a program to turn text into speech so tell me where do I find this on my Vista? My eyes are having a hard time reading everything on the screen.
  
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  Corwinnx 17 years ago
  
  Norma..
  
  I either saw in Speech Recognition, or I saw it in 'Sounds' on Control Panel.
  
  I think it was in 'sounds' because I think I saw it when I was trying to configure my new mic.
  
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Leanne King 17 years ago

Hi Norma go to Start menu/Control Panel/Speech Recognition icon and you can click on the links. I haven't tried it yet For text to Speech go to Start/control panel/text to speech and follow the instructions.

Wow I just tried the speech to text and it was EASY! Can't believe I was contemplating spending money for a similar program when this is right here! For once, I've found something great about vista.

Leanne
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Instructor 17 years ago

Will it convert it to an mp3 file that you can export?
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SirThomas 17 years ago

I found it in control panel, but how do you use it?

How do you create a text to be converted to speech? I don't see anything there that would really allow me to do anything with it...

Thomas
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SirThomas 17 years ago

OK, I see now... all you have to do is to type your text into a ONE line window and click "preview voice'.

However, I couldn't copy and paste anything into that window... Also I couldn't
find a way to convert it into an audio file of any sort...

Thomas
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Josh Anderson 17 years ago

I love vista's voice to text...

It takes a well enunciated recital of "Row Row Row Your Boat" and turns it into this:

Roa row to row your boat jet Li down this Trina narrowly merrily narrowly Malik life is but a dream

Now I know how those spammers who sent nonsense phrases at the end of their emails to help them get through email filterss came up with them :-)
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ryanman 17 years ago

It's pretty much like dragon naturally speaking but needs to be trained as usual. The more you talk the better it gets.
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Reg 17 years ago

I recently found out about SpokenText and my initial tests produced great results.

SpokenText.net is a free text to speech converter, it allows you to record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. Using it you can easily create audio recordings (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content. You can use our site or Firefox Extension to record books, articles,web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen while you commute or exercise.

Check it out Free Online text to speech (TTS) converter SpokenText
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HDRider 17 years ago

This is pretty cool for people who don't know about it...

In Adobe Reader open any pdf. and click view, then click read out loud, it will read your book to you.
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- Corwinnx 17 years ago
  
  Reg! That is a GEM! I LOVE it. I just gave it a pdf report to convert... it took less than two minutes for it to generate a 15 minute audio recording.
  
  I've only tried one voice so far, and it definitely sounds 'computer generated' but it's still an cool app.
  
  Used with the right message, it might actually be a really effective marketing tool.
  
  High five to Reg.
  
  Warmest Regards,
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Leanne King 17 years ago

@HDRider - I've never noticed that before ... do you know how to make it talk slower? I just gave it a whirl and it's a pretty cool feature

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Sylvia Meier 17 years ago

Ive used it ever since I got my first Vista and like DNS it does need to be trained but it really works wonders. Didn't know I could get it to read PDF's etc. Could be a quick way to turn your articles and e-books into audio files to futher expand on your efforts without added work. Thanks for the headsup about that part of the program, will come in handy.
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