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