[thelist] Text to Voice

[Bev Corwin]

The Macinstosh systems also have this .... I used the Nisus Writer with Mac
OS8 in language learning technology classrooms and it worked very well.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "McCoy, Alan" <amccoy at goodmanct.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:58 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Text to Voice


> > The narrator is ok but it read the whole screen.  I want to be able to
> > highlight some text and just have that read.
> > Anybody know of something that will do this?
>
> We did a little research into this while I was at NASA. Microsoft has a
> whole speech API and SDK that I *think* had a browser addon that allowed
> you to select some text and right-click to show the "read to me"
> command. The MS speech engine would then kick in and read the selected
> text to you. I don't remember, however, if the browser addon was part of
> the MS package or if it was a third-party thing.
>
> Anyway, the URL for the MS speech stuff is
> http://www.microsoft.com/speech/
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan
>
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