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Listen Up: Overview of Text to Speech SoftwareDan ComdenUniversity of Washington
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Whenver you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of influence, try ordering someone else’s dog around.
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outline Why Platforms Apps What UW uses What I missed
(What you use)
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why TTS?
Academic texts
Ancillary/Adjunct reading
Recreational reading
ESL
Other?
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platforms
Handheld iOS Everything else
Mac
Windows
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apps – everything else Zip, zilch, nada (not really)
Android – TalkBack Mantano, Book Place, blio, Moon+ FB Reader, MultiReader
Blackberry Text ‘nDrive (what?)
Others?
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apps -iOS Google Books – only ePUB format will work with VoiceOver iBooks – VoiceOver, other tools?
Others?
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mac OSBuilt-in TextEdit
Add-on Read:OutLoud Snap&Read floating toolbar Read&Write toolbar NaturalReader
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windows K-3000, WYNN Read:OutLoud Read&Write ClaroRead UltraHal NaturalReader (free and paid) Balabolka TextAloud Narrator…
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too big to fail? (no) K-3000
WYNN
Great for K-12, not so much for higher ed
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mid range ClaroRead
Read&Write
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low cost Text Aloud
NaturalReader Personal/Professional/Ultimate
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free Balabolka
NaturalReader (free version)
UltraHal
(ReadPlease discontinued)
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UltraHal (free) zabaware.com
Unique highlighting @ bottom of window
Converts into .WAV only
Auto-reads dialogs
Mouse only – no keyboard shortcuts
Beware of Adware/Malware w CNET download
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Balabolka The Chatterer is free!
Supports spell checking, skins,
Uses any unlocked SAPI voice
Focus indication by color
MP3 creation
Sketchy keyboard and OS integration (shortcuts, cut and paste)
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TextAloud Reasonable price
Group/site licenses available
Custom audio processing, different voices
Creates MP3, other formats
Batch Processing
Firefox plugin
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NaturalReader Lots of options
Save to mp3 feature (paid)
Free version works for many
Easy to distribute, uses installed SAPI
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outside the box ZoomText MAGic
Other tools?
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what UW uses ClaroRead
NaturalReader (Free)
ZoomText
JAWS/VoiceOver
On deck: Read&Write and NVDA
*All supported by local OCR & DRS
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what you use (what did I miss?) (+3) Ginger - spell and grammar checker – Clockwork booth NaturallySpeaking Read That Back feature
ClaroSpeak – iOS available now VoiceDreamReader masking reader (sounds cool!)
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Demos ClaroRead
NaturalReader
TextAloud