| Looking for a natural voice speech engine? Curious | | | | reading on your computer, imagine being free to |
| about what software can read your e-mails. Here | | | | relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things |
| is the latest TTS (text-to-speach) news.AT&T | | | | while the information you need is read to you in a |
| Natural VoicesAT&T Natural Voices are available | | | | pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Better still, |
| in 16khz or 8khz Versions. The 16khz versions | | | | leave your computer behind. TextAloud's unique |
| have a richer, fuller sound and are more natural | | | | Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily |
| sounding. The 8khz version is slightly less | | | | reading to MP3 audio files to download to your |
| expensive and takes up less disk space, but | | | | portable MP3 player. Listen to email, online news, |
| generally doesn't sound quite as good. A good | | | | or important documents while you exercise, work |
| analogy might be that 16khz voices sound like | | | | or commute.NewsAloud |
| voices over FM Radio, while 8khz voices sound | | | | personal news agent finds the stories you want, |
| much more like voices over the | | | | then reads them aloud in a natural, human |
| telephone.NeoSpeechKate and Paul are US English | | | | sounding voice. |
| voices, available in 16khz or 8khz versions, | | | | Stop plowing through email or spending hours |
| supporting SAPI5 Speech applications including all | | | | surfing the net for the news that interests you. |
| Products, most newer TTS programs from other | | | | Instead let NewsAloud do it so you can listen |
| companies, as well as TTS functions built into | | | | while you work on something else, or get your |
| Windows XP. Each voice requires slightly under | | | | news to go and listen while you excercise, |
| 300mb of disk space, and is available on CD or via | | | | commute, or get outside for a change.In depth |
| download. They support speed and pitch | | | | information on these TTS solutions is available |
| adjustments, and require a minimum of Pentium | | | | at:AT&T Natural Voices |
| II, 400mhz with 128mb RAM.TextAloud | | | | |
| 2.0TextAloud converts any text into spoken | | | | 2. |
| words. Instead of the valuable time you spend | | | | |