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Text-to-Speech in Languages other than English

By Ricky Buchanan on February 8, 2008

Text-to-Speech in Languages other than English

OS X only offers US English text-to-speech voices, and they are not of a very high quality. Leopard’s “Alex” voice is a great improvement, but even that voice is jarring and mechanical to listen to for more than a few minutes and only offers American English. So what are your alternatives for text to speech?

Posted in Content producers, Information, New Software, OS X, Text to Speech, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged abandoned, commercial, computer voice, e speak, espeak, espeech, features, free trial, languages other than english, mac voice, multilingual, non english, speak text, speech synthesizer, text speak, tts, voice output, voices for mac | 18 Responses

iListen

By Ricky Buchanan on December 4, 2007

iListen

The software referred to here has been superseded by a newer product. Please read the article about the new MacSpeech Dictate software instead. SALEM, NH, November 30, 2007 – MacSpeech, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of iListen 1.8, an update to the Macintosh industry’s leading speech recognition solution, now compatible with Mac OS X [...]

Posted in New Software, Speech to Text, Users | Tagged abandoned | 1 Response

Move files without drag and drop

By Ricky Buchanan on August 13, 2007

Move files without drag and drop

This article is about an application which is unfortunately no longer available. I have left the article here for reference purposes only. Move attempts to deal with the problems that blind users face with drag and drop. Move will move the selected items in the finder to a chosen directory. It will then open that [...]

Posted in Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged abandoned, free | Leave a response

MaxiMice

By Ricky Buchanan on July 20, 2007

MaxiMice

MaxiMice takes the clicks out of scrolling views and dragging windows. Move the mouse pointer near the edge of a view and it scrolls. Move it closer to the edge and the scrolling speeds up. Or just hold down a modifier key to move or scroll the window under the cursor.

Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged abandoned, mouse enhancement | 6 Responses

CLIDrag 1.0.0

By Ricky Buchanan on May 17, 2007

CLIDrag 1.0.0

CLIDrag allows drag-and-drop operations to be initiated from the command line. It supports dragging of a number of different data types including files, text and images.

Posted in Geek, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged abandoned, free | Leave a response

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