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TomJoe
12-16-2005, 03:50 AM
What programs (freeware) will allow your computer to speak specific typed text?
viscousmemories
12-16-2005, 04:07 AM
I found a few suggestions here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/seeing/talk/sub_2.shtml).
TomJoe
12-16-2005, 04:41 AM
LOL. Thanks. I now have a new voicemail message.
Megatron
12-16-2005, 06:51 AM
Amazing Software Types While You Talk! (http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/41)
lisarea
12-16-2005, 07:43 AM
A long, long time ago, I wrote a bunch of little ghetto-assed language generators. Haiku generators and things like that. Anyways, I had this one that was a communist propaganda generator, and I'd have it spit out randomly generated motivational communist things, which would run through a speech generator, and I had my stereo hooked up to my computer.

So I'd have that stuff coming out my stereo at me all the live long day. And surprisingly, it kind of started to suck after a while.

But what sucked worst of everything was that I had my computer read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to me once, and now, I can't read that without hearing it in that crazy automaton voice.

Be careful, man. I am just saying.
JoeP
12-16-2005, 06:45 PM
I want my PC to talk!I suggest shining a bright light at it and not letting it sleep for 48 hours. That will either make it talk or make you hallucinate that it's talking.
livius drusus
12-16-2005, 06:57 PM
One of my roommates a decade ago had a PowerBook which would talk whatever you typed in. It sounded like Stephen Hawking.

Needless to say, we typed in a wide range of profanity, including "when I think of you, I get so wet I float out to sea on my own juice." As it happens, juice, according to PowerBook ESL, is pronounced "jewess", and since my roommate was both Jewish and a lesbian, she thought that was the funniest thing ever. I don't know about that, but it was definitely on the top 10 list.
Corona688
12-17-2005, 06:31 PM
Yeah, Macs come with that sort of software. A friend programmed his to mumble randomly about killing the fleshies while it was running it's screensaver.

festival (http://festvox.org/festival/) supposedly doesn't require an operating system, but despite this supposed windows support, it doesn't actually have any binaries built for windows. sorry.