[Kde-accessibility] getting text to speech software ????

[Peter Korn]

Hi Steven,

> Also, if you want somewhat better sounding speech and don't mind paying
> a small fee for proprietary S/W, you can investigate Cepstral and
> Fonix/DECTalk, both of which have $25 USD downloads IIRC.

Purchase Cepstral voices for $24.95 each at:
   http://nextup.com/Cepstral.html
Listen to a Cepstral demo at:
   http://www.cepstral.com/

Purchase DECTalk software runtime for Linux for $50 at:
   http://www.fonix.com/page.cfm?name=product_dectalk_rt_for_linux&ID=15
Listen to a DECtalk demo at the same page


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


> regards
> 
> - Bill
> 
> - Bill
> 
> 
>>I am writing to you from Brisbane, and apparently here, there are 2 
>>commercial sellers of such software -- starting from around $1000. And I am 
>>currently a uni student so can't really afford it.
>>
>>One is called "OpenBook"
>>One is called "Kurzweil"
>>
>>But as I mentioned, being a uni student, I can't really afford paying a 
>>large sum of money for some software.
>>
>>Can anyone possibly suggest to me if there is any, and if so which, text to 
>>sppech software that is good quality and not expensive (like OpenOffice for 
>>example -- for word processing).
>>
>>I am wanting to use it to read to me textbook material and journal article 
>>material and being able to transfer its translation from text to speech onto 
>>a CD or DVD maybe to be able to play back later, on say an ordinary CD 
>>player -- ie on the same sort of format as for music -- .wav or whatever the 
>>other format is called ?
>>
>>Can someone point me in the right direction ? I would be grateful.
>>
>>Steven Powter.
>>
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