Editing a Story? Listen! part three
David Perez of Cosmocápsula, an SF mag and group in Colombia, and Liberty Hall Writers, found Balabolka, a freeware text-to-speech software for Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/2003/Vista/7) that supports several voices and languages!
Here's the blurb:
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of VBScript.
Much thanks David!
That makes we wonder about alternatives to my way of using Stanza to make MP3's of my stories. Obviously there are alternatives. A quick search yielded CK's text-to-speech to MP3, and that was without really trying.
Editing a Story? Listen! Part 1
http://gsemones.livejournal.com/22852.html
Editing a Story? Listen! Part 2
http://gsemones.livejournal.com/24184.html
Here's the blurb:
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of VBScript.
Much thanks David!
That makes we wonder about alternatives to my way of using Stanza to make MP3's of my stories. Obviously there are alternatives. A quick search yielded CK's text-to-speech to MP3, and that was without really trying.
Editing a Story? Listen! Part 1
http://gsemones.livejournal.com/22852.html
Editing a Story? Listen! Part 2
http://gsemones.livejournal.com/24184.html