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Subject:    [Kde-accessibility] getting text to speech software ????
From:       "steven powter" <s_powter () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-10-06 5:16:53
Message-ID: BAY12-F39rXg5wlSe9F0001759b () hotmail ! com
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Hi all.

Just wanted if someone could possibly help me with something ?

I am trying to get a hold of some decent text to speech (TTS) software -- 
for free ie open source -- if possible ?

I am writing to you from Brisbane, and apparently here, there are 2 
commercial sellers of such software -- starting from around $1000. And I am 
currently a uni student so can't really afford it.

One is called "OpenBook"
One is called "Kurzweil"

But as I mentioned, being a uni student, I can't really afford paying a 
large sum of money for some software.

Can anyone possibly suggest to me if there is any, and if so which, text to 
sppech software that is good quality and not expensive (like OpenOffice for 
example -- for word processing).

I am wanting to use it to read to me textbook material and journal article 
material and being able to transfer its translation from text to speech onto 
a CD or DVD maybe to be able to play back later, on say an ordinary CD 
player -- ie on the same sort of format as for music -- .wav or whatever the 
other format is called ?

Can someone point me in the right direction ? I would be grateful.

Steven Powter.

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