Re: Text to speech programs

Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:51:32 +0100


John K Clark wrote:

>Speech to text programs have gotten a lot better in the last few years but
>text to speech programs have not, they sound as bad as they did 5 years ago.

I don't think they sound that bad, at least not the best of them, but I
agree that they're not as good as one would expect. I've used ReadtoMe,
which is avilable free from http://www.pixi.com/~reader1/ If you want
something which is (a) free and (b) pretty damn good given (a), I'd advise
you to head in that direction.

I wonder if 'professional' programs for the blind are any better: does
anyone here have any experience of those?

Sarah

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