bob dunford asks:
I am writing a book. I would like for it to go onto a CD so my family can listen to it. To accomplish this, I want a good, free text to speech program that can handle different voices to represent different people in the book. I’ve been looking and my friends say there are lots of programs that can do this, but I can’t find them.
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Tagged: best software, free software, text to speech
System: Windows vista.ultimate
Tagged: best software, free software, text to speech
3 Answers -
Karkala Nayak
February 25, 2012Hello Bob,
check out for text to voice search engines..
http://www.panopreter.com/en/products/panopreter_basic/ttsvoices.php
Check this free software
http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm
http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm
AND this software
http://download.cnet.com/Ultra-Hal-Text-to-Speech-Reader/3000-7239_4-10071733.html
I hope it helped
Anonymous
February 25, 2012FREE TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES
http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm
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http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
Marcus L Endicott
February 26, 2012Bob, this is actually a very interesting question. The short answer is that I don’t know of any. The Catch-22 here might be “free”. You have gotten some good replies though. This touches on the existing, nascent fields of eDrama, Virtual Drama, Interactive Storytelling, Storytelling Systems, Transmedia Storytelling, and Virtual Storytelling. As someone who designs conversational agents (chatbots), I’m not exactly sure how you would get the different voices to recognize themselves within the text (for example of a novel). Most such dialog systems work off of screenplays, for instance, where the dialog is more obvious. I’m not really familiar with the more fancy types of eDrama and Transmedia systems. You can find something more about all this at http://meta-guide.com