[Year 12 IT Apps] Need a program to convert text to audio

[Joseph Papaleo]

For those that were interested, I used Verbose (
http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/index.html) and the Mike voice.  Verbose has a
short trial period and for my purposes was perfect today.  I might buy it in
the future, but voices sound too "robotic" or American.


Some things to look out for if you use this software.  Make sure punctuation
is used as the sentences just flowed into each other.  not good for
listening to.  Also, there was no distinction between headings and normal
text.



I also found Power Text to Speech Reader at
http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm.  In it's free trial version, it
is limited to 1000 words only.


Natural Reader  http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm
<http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm>Voices sound great, but cannot
save files for later use in the free download.  I think I'll be buying this
at a later date.


Thanks for the assistance.


Joseph Papaleo



2008/10/15 Joseph Papaleo <josephpapaleo at gmail.com>

> Thanks all for the great responses.
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> I'm trying out some "free" software now, but the limitations are the range
> of voices (sometimes only 1 or all American) or limited to 1000 words or 15
> day trial, etc.
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> I'll send an update on what I found later.
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> Thanks again
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> Joseph
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> 2008/10/15 Paul Kerr <pkerr at sion.melb.catholic.edu.au>
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>   Hi Joseph,
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>> I have several programs that I am going to try for the same reason.  They
>> are:
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>> Natural Reader
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>> PowerTalk
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>> Read Please 2003
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>> PdfAloud
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>> Wordtalk
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>> I have them on CD and I can drop in a copy if you like.  They are all
>> freeware and apparently all work reasonably well
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>> Cheers
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>> Paul
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>> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
>> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Papaleo
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:52 PM
>> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
>> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Need a program to convert text to audio
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>> Problem:  Student has problem *reading *notes.
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>> Solution:  Student can *listen *to notes on iPod.
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>> Can anyone recommend a program that I can download (either free or trial
>> download) that will convert text (Year 12 summary notes) into audio format
>> (mp3 or wav file) that my student can then use to listen to?
>>
>> I did this mid-year, but the software I used was hit-and-miss.  Anyone
>> else got experience with this and make a suitable recommendation?
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>> Many thanks in anticipation,
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>> --
>> Joseph Papaleo
>> Ivanhoe Grammar School
>> Plenty Campus
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