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Text to Speech

Tony Karrer

I tried YAKiToMe! I'd be curious what anyone is doing out there with Text to Speech beyond the example that Chris discussed. I did a couple of tests with a few of the free Text to Speech services that I found to see what something that's a big longer would sound like. Feed2Podcast , SpokenText , and ReadTheWords.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Not only am I often made aware of new tools, but also get opinions, tips, and examples of their use. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Many of the blogs I follow are part of the eLearningLearning community.

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

eFront

The Festival Speech Synthesis System Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface.