The infodoodads blog recently had a post about "Read the Words," which is a relatively new free text to speech program. You can see the blog post at http://infodoodads.com/?p=373
You can also check out the Read the Words website at http://readthewords.com/
The Read the Words website states, "ReadTheWords.com began as a simple concept in January 2008: To assist students with learning disabilities with their studies, by means of auditory learning and auditory processing."
For those of you that want to experiment with this text to speech software program, I would love to hear your feedback about it - feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I haven't tried it yet, but hope to soon!
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Hi!
You should also check out a couple of services that we have developed. One is the www.audiofeedcreator.com that I created for a couple of years ago. However, we are now focusing the development on our new service www.vocalfruits.com where we shortly will add support for some more languages and better user interface and make it totally free. Both services are about converting RSS feeds into podcasts. VocalFruits also have the feature to aggregate items from a number of feeds into one, and also the possibility to send an email directly to the feed to update it. Perfect for speech-bloggers on the run. What we do now is to take the best out of the two services to further improve the VocalFruits platform.
Since me and my team developed the ReadSpeaker services back in 2001 we have been dedicated to work with the best text-to-speech engines on the market, even if it means using a number of different TTS suppliers and platforms. On top of that we have worked for years with an additional layer of reading improvements to make it even a better user experience.
We started already in 1999 and were originally working from an web accessibility perspective only, but over the years, as TTS have improved, we are now targeting the broad audience. However, we are always dedicated to our mission to make life easier for all the ones that have a hard time reading text, whatever the reason may be.
We at VoiceCorp will soon release some really cool services for consumers. keep updated on http://blog.rspeak.com
Niclas Bergstrom
CEO, VoiceCorp Group
Founder, ReadSpeaker
niclas.bergstrom@voice-corp.com
www.voice-corp.com
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