Text-to-Speech

[Barry Levine]

Ken,

I was not 100% clear about what the developer was going to do. The sound 
files he is going to create are for a relatively simple educational 
game. The "sounds" are actual words or phrases and they will be linked 
to specific fields containing those specific words or phrases. This 
means that what he is doing is not really "text-to-speech" but just 
playing pre-existing sound files based upon some programmatical logic.

However, your mom's situation can be addressed using the text-to-speech 
external on a Mac. Why not get her a Mac?

Barry
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On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 01:45  AM, use-revolution-
request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> My mom has macular degeneration and can't see the computer screen well
> enough to see her email, which she regularly gets from the family 
> members.
> This means she won't get her mail until someone comes and D/L's it and 
> reads
> it to her.
>
> I want to write a RR program that imports the email text and reads it 
> aloud
> to her. She's used to this sort of thing from using 'Books on tape' and 
> can
> probably do it herself if someone can set the computer to run email 
> from a
> single key, and the RR program from another key.
>
> If your friend's developer can show us how to make this happen using 
> real
> sound files, he may be able to bank a whole lot of moola in a hurry. I'd
> give him $200 right now if he can show me how to make that happen.
>
> Best regards,
> Ken N.
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