Dan Waters
df.waters at comcast.net
Wed Dec 5 11:13:33 CST 2012
Hi Shamil, I remember that Excel has a text-to-speech function - at least it did a few years ago. The voice was not very natural, but it is free and readily available. I always thought it would be fun to provide voice dialog boxes, but it turns out that many of my users don't have speakers or a sound card. Good Luck! Dan -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 8:22 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Text to speech Hi All -- I'd like to make conversion of a set of transcript texts to speech. Here is the site http://www.text2speech.org/ which makes rather satisfactory conversion, still I'd like to: - have an option to define�pronunciation/aliasing�pronunciation�of some (key)words, e.g. the referred above site does result in 'C#" pronounced as 'c hash" and I'd like it to be pronounced as 'c sharp'; - have more "human being alike" voice - the 'American Male 2' voice from http://www.text2speech.org/�does sound not bad still it's sounding too artificial and I hope there could be more natural generated voice options available somewhere. Free solution preferred but I'd pay for it if it wouldn't be too expensive... Thank you. -- Shamil� _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com