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Voice4Me Basic AAC Program
Voice4Me is one of the free programs available at the SchoolFreeware website. It’s a very basic AAC program for users who have trouble speaking – users can click on a picture to speak the associated text, or type text into a box and then click on the ‘speak’ button.
Changing Narrators With Ghostreader or Infovox iVox Voices
Did you know that you can change narrators automatically when you’re using GhostReader? It’s an undocumented feature, and only works with the voices from Infovox iVox or ConvenienceWare, but I’ve confirmed that it does work.
Dejal Narrator – Text to speech with easy voice changes
Dejal Narrator is a text to speech toold which allows you to set with different voices for different sections of text. It allows for multiple chapters in each document to help organize the story, uses a word replacement dictionary to fine-tune the pronunciation, and can export the story to a sound file or direct to iTunes.
VoIP Phone Calls for AAC Users
Have you ever wanted to make phone calls on the net using a synthetic computer generated voice? If you’re an AAC user, then this is a great way to communicate with people remotely. This article will show you how to set up Wiretap Anywhere to send your speech voice to Skype’s internet phone system.
Cepstral Text-to-Speech Voices Upgraded
Cepstral has released version 5 of its text to speech voices, announcing improved voice quality and engine efficiency.
Simple: Speak selected text
Did you know that there is a very simple way to get your Mac to speak pretty much any piece of text?
Simple: Announce when application needs your attention
An application “needing attention”, in Apple’s language, is one that’s waiting for you to tell it something before it can keep going and isn’t the app you’re currently working with. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will use the system voice to tell you that an alert is being displayed.
Infovox iVox 1.2 adds new voices and a pronunciation editor
Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 1.2 speech synthesiser with new voices and a pronunciation editor.
Simple: Announce when application displays an alert
If an application displays an alert, Mac OS X will bounce its dock icon a few times – easy to miss. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will also use the system voice to tell you what’s going on.
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?
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