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Posted by Ike Washington
Feb 10, 2008 at 04:59 PM

Just to round off: after a couple of weeks of using it, I highly recommend TextAloud. While it’s good for reading out stray text, in my case, newspaper articles pulled from my rss reader, I’ve found it most useful as a way of going through my most recent notes when I’m absolutely sick and tired of looking at the screen.

I’ve also used it to produce audiobooks - taking txt file versions from Project Gutenberg. Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations took about 20 minutes to convert.

Given the discount, I splashed out on an advanced voice engine - AT&T Natural Voices. Currently $25 for US Crystal and Mike.

Ike

Posted by Chris Thompson
Feb 10, 2008 at 05:42 PM

Just FYI, for those on Macs, you can select text in any application, then choose App Menu -> Services -> Speech -> Start Speaking Text and it’ll speak it for you. The new “Alex” voice they licensed from Cepstral for Leopard is very good.

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