There are several free and purchase options. D speech is an excellent free option which will do as you ask. Simply open the file with text and select save as mp3. You can use any voices installed on your system. There are multiple customisations available.
I believe that another free option is Espeak which also has this feature but I have not personally used it. If it relies on the default Espeak voices this may not be a great listen. Text aloud is also a good program which you can buy for about £20. It has a similar set of features to D speech but can convert text to Mp3 at a faster rate. It is slightly less accessible than d speech but is perfectly usable with Jaws. If you have Kurzweil you can convert text to mp3 audio files fairly straightforwardly but as this is a very expensive option you should only go this route if you already have Kurzweil for scanning . I believe Open Book also has this feature but again have no personal experience of this. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Pingstock Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] text to speech has anyone used text to speech software? I am wanting to use this program to take book shares daisy books and wanted to put them in mp3 format to be able to play on my portable device. Any help would be appreciated. Kathy For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4622 (20091119) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4622 (20091119) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4622 (20091119) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
