Can you recommend a good text-to-speech proggy?

metalmackey · 27 Dec 2006 at 21:45

Hi Guys,

As title says. I'm trying the trial of TextAlould at the mo and it seems pretty good with its plugins for IE and Outlook, but I would like one to work automatically with msn messenger. Anyone have any other suggestions?

On the same lines, is Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 the best voice recognition software?

Thanks

modo77 · 27 Dec 2006 at 22:07

The one in Vista is excellent, works in every windows app I've tried.

lay-z-boy · 27 Dec 2006 at 22:56

dns 9 worked perfectly for me, after a some training i could write essays in about a 10th of the time it normally takes

Unluckyalf · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:14

My brother-in-law is registered blind and uses some software called JAWS on his pc. I dont have any links for it right now though, sorry

metalmackey · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:37

Unluckyalf said:
My brother-in-law is registered blind and uses some software called JAWS on his pc. I dont have any links for it right now though, sorry

Thanks, i'll look into it (not a good choice of words for us registered blind folk

). At least we still have our sense of humour.

metalmackey · 28 Dec 2006 at 03:11

The demo of JAWS is great, but it costs 785 quid OMG.

Unluckyalf · 28 Dec 2006 at 03:40

Would there not be some kind of subsidy on this for blind people? I would ask my brother-in-law but we dont talk

Im fairly sure he wouldnt have paid retail. Oh and he also uses a version of this on his mobile phone too i think.

Tomsk · 28 Dec 2006 at 09:07

Have you tried MS SAPI? It's free.

lay-z-boy said:
dns 9 worked perfectly for me, after a some training i could write essays in about a 10th of the time it normally takes

So your PC dictated the essay and you wrote it down.