From Eric Frans Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 05:22
From Eric Frans Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 05:22
} From: xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xx.xxx.xx } Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 11:12 AM } } does anybody know a program that can talk/sing } like a human voice....... } } i know that there's creative's text assist, } but anything else ? go to http://www.filemine.com and search for "speech" i'd recommend "willow talk" for the pc. it has a handful of possible voices and it allows you to tweak the voices using pitch/volume/speed. also you can highlight chunks of text in e-mail readers, word processors, etc. and it will read it. pretty cool. also the speech is very understandable. the only drawback is the program is shareware so it expires after a few weeks if you don't register it (i.e. pay $). the only other program i tried at filemine for text->speech was winspeech (link is wsp301n.zip), but this program was bare bones -- one voice, which was harder to understand and the vocubulary was fairly limited so it mispronounced words sometimes. oh yeah, if any of you are into old (80's) arcade games (xevious, gyruss, galaga, tempest, etc.), i'd highly recommend you search for "mame" at the same site and you won't be disappointed. :) __________________________________________ E r i c F r a n s :: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx cellular | si-{cut}.db | so-cal idm swope transmissions http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans