[comp.sys.atari.st] Text -> Speech Programs

tony@nswitgould.OZ (Tony McGrath) (12/22/87)

I am making this inquiry on behalf of a partially sighted person
who has recently purchased an Atari ST.

What he is looking for is a Text -> Speech conversion program that
would allow him to hear the contents of a text file. I know that there
is a simple speech program available called ST-TALK that performs this
function, but only on text typed from the keyboard.

Does anybody know of a similar program that could read a file of text
and then speak it back? Are there sources available for the aforementioned
ST-TALK that might be modified to make it work on text files?

Please reply to me by mail, unless, of course, you think it is important
enough to post.

Tony McGrath
tony@nswitgould.OZ

cbz@mhuxu.UUCP (Craig B. Ziemer) (12/29/87)

In article <3388@nswitgould.OZ>, tony@nswitgould.OZ (Tony McGrath) writes:
> 
> What he is looking for is a Text -> Speech conversion program that

Tony:

I tried several times to reach you via e-mail, but was unsuccessful (not
surprising since the path was 17 machines long).  There is a prograam
called STSPEECH that will speak a line typed in on the keyboard or speak
an already-created text file.  Needless to say, it has a very strong
"synthesized speech" accent but it really quite  understandable.  It is a
public domain program.  Send me e-mail if you want the details.

Craig Z. at AT&T
mhuxu!cbz