by Samuel Sennott
Check out the text to speech application ArtenSPEAK for Mac and Windows. It’s not Kurzweil, but it works.
Screenshot of the text to speech app ArtenSPEAK
From the website: ArtenSPEAK is a simple application that speaks text. You may drag or paste text into the ArtenSPEAK text area and when you depress the loudspeaker button the text will be read to you. Ideal for use with webpages, email, or any text document.
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by Samuel Sennott
Two years ago, when I first started recording voices using Audacity and pitching and working with the tempo to change adult voices into child like voices (what I call language banking) for recording in various AAC devices my students were using, I had a dream of a text to speech voice that aged with the student. I think that this probably will be an option for the future. I imagine that you could do some workups right now doing some time elapsed pitch and tempo adjusts in some of the high quality voices available now.
This thought reemerged as I read a post on the Schuyler’s Monster Blog post, Vox monstrum.
Thinking about this makes me remember those moments when I show children how I can make my voice turn into a little boy or girl sounding voice. They like having a kid voice in their co-planned sequenced social scripts or songs, rather than an adult male or female voice as recorded from teachers.
This also reminds me the that it is long overdue to get the definitive language banking guide up. Hopefully by ISAAC that can happen.
by Samuel Sennott
Previously I wrote a post covering online text to speech recording called Listening to Research as MP3 Files on Your iWhatever. Today, I got word of a very powerful tool of this genre called ReadTheWords. It not only is quick, has a smooth graphic user interface, the ability to embed your recording, but it also has an option to have an avatar read your text.
Check out some information from their site: http://www.readthewords.com
Want To Read
- Upload MS Word
- Upload Adobe PDF
- Upload HTML File
- Write Text Content
- Cut & Paste Text
- Website Address
- RSS Feed
- Choose 1 of 15 Readers
- We Read English, Spanish and French
- Control Reader’s Speed
- Superfast Conversion Speed
- Less than 1 minute to generate over 1 hrs worth of Reading.
- Listen to your Reading Online
- Download mp3 to your Ipod
- Post Your Reading in Website or Blog
- Turn Your Reading into a Podcast
- Enable Multi-tasking
- Saves Time
- Improve Comprehension
