Hi Hank, Dan, and Dennis, GhostReader for text to speech is bundled with the InfoVox iVox voices for use with this application, currently $39.95 for a single user, 1 language license, and it can be used both for listening and for saving to files. I think this product is targeted at the general text-to-speech market of users for listening to documents or converting them to audio files for the convenience of later listening, possibly on a portable player. They have a try-before-you-buy downloadable demo.
>> you can not use the voices with this version with voice over though? The GhostReader product page states: "The voices you get with GhostReader will work in GhostReader and not system-wide, for system-wide voices you should check out the Infovox iVox voices, which can be used with any application, including GhostReader. We offer an attractive Infovox iVox and GhostReader bundle for US$/Euro 159 (109 until 31 October 2007) for US English, US$/Euro 229 (159 until 31 October 2007) for non-Scandinavian European languages, and US$/Euro 369 (279 until 31 October 2007) for Scandinavian languages. Please purchase these through our AssistiveWare website." The InfoVox iVox voices by themselves are $99.95 for US or UK English. If you heard Gordon's demo on ACB Main Menu of running Windows on the new Intel Macs with Fusion or Parallels, at the end of April, he was using one of the UK InfoVox iVox voices. As Greg states, >VoiceOver can use any SpeechManager voice from Apple or other vendors. and GhostReader can also use the default Apple voices or any other voices you buy. Anne recommended VisioVoice, which uses the InfoVox iVox voices, but also gives great additional navigation and use options to VoiceOver. For non-English speakers, it also gives the VoiceOver capability of installing and managing the system out of the box that is not possible in the current version of VoiceOver. So a French user who wants full VoiceOver accessibility to the system could buy VisioVoice for $249 or 249 Euros, get the great sounding voices in French and one English voice, the additional hot key, local screen enlargement, and other navigation options, and also the text to speech features of GhostReader for creating audio files. The InfoVox iVox voices give good voice options for other European languages, so this could be useful for reading/listening in another language with the addition of a language pack. Hope this helps Cheers, Esther >>> For text to mp3 files Assistiveware has started selling a >>> product called ConvenienceWare GhostReader: >>> >>> http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php >>> >>> This uses the great-sounding voices of VisioVoice, and >>> is VoiceOver friendly. Like VisioVoice, you >>> can buy language packages that do text-to-speech in >>> a wide variety of languages. It's cheaper than >>> VisioVoice because the voices are used for document >>> reading and text-to-speech, but not for the full >>> integrated support of VoiceOver. You have the >>> same control options for skipping sentences or >>> paragraphs (or jumping back to read sentences) >>> that VisioVoice gives. You can also switch voices >>> midway. And you can convert text files to audio >>> files or iTunes tracks. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> On July 28, 2007, at 10:09AM, "Anne Robertson" wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I use VisioVoice from: >>>> www.assistiveware.com >>>> It's also a nice little reader and comes with great-sounding voices. >>>> Not cheap, though. >>>> >>>> Anne >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Dennis DiBona wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi List >>>>> what is a good program that is vo friendly to convert text files to >>>>> mp3. >>>>> Dennis >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>
