Now don't get me wrong, I like the TA but have tried just about every program out there. I was in contact with nextup for a long time and made several suggestions to them on how to improve their product. So far they said they would consider it. Now one day I found this Dspeech program and thought maybe to try it. Low and behold, it had the one great feature that I had suggested to TA in it. It pretty well works the same, but the thing that I liked was that you can add sound files into your document as you go along. For exameple that I might write a article about what it means to be on a firing squad? Well, now you tyep along and just at the right place you insert a count down and 10 rifles blast off...and you continue on.
Now when you save your text as an mp3 file and play it back, that sound file just plays within the file. Now as far as I know, you cannot do this with TA, unnless they updated this feature. Also I wanted TA to be able to allow me to play some type of music in the background but not yet. I do like the TA simplicity but it costs around $34 while Dspeech just accepts donations. They both work with sappi voices and I run about 20 different voices but still looking for those really high quality ones. I still use TA as my main program but when I want to do something special, i turn to my dspeech. Also you can set dpeech to save your files at a louder volume automatically. Dspeech has some items that I have not yet figured out. I really hope that TA will add or upgrade with sound file insert capability. That is it... Do not ever waste your time or money on natural speak text to speech. It cost me a $100 to learn that this program was not made for blind or partially sighted people. Plus, it is very complicated to use and you still have to buy the better voices, so TA is a much better deal. MMM On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:54:16 +1100 "Peter Scanlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So what sort of things can this program do that Text Aloud doesn't? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: Text aloud is free today > > > Hi back, textaloud is a great program. I only wished they had higher > end > voices. But there is another program that is toatlly free, and > actually > does more than textaloud. It is called Dspeech. > There are a few features that TA does not have. The help files are > not > very good but if you take the time, and learn all its little ticks > it > does very good. The builder asks for a donation. > I'm searching for thoase La.../ voices which are very real but very > expensive. Anyone out there have or want to get rid of soemthing > they > might not use any longer? > MMM > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:13:04 -0600 "Brandon Armstrong" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah it does work and i love this program. > > Brandon > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:11 PM > > Subject: Re: Text aloud is free today > > > > > > It will be there untill midnight. > > try the link again it works. > > http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anders Holmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:02 PM > > Subject: SV: Text aloud is free today > > > > > > Hello! > > Page doesn't work. > > So i guess its timed out. > > /Anders. > > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > För Rob > > Skickat: den 20 december 2007 23:56 > > Till: PC-Audio > > Ämne: Text aloud is free today > > > > > > I didn't know if you want to post this on the list or not. > > but it is PC Audio related. > > this is a program that will take text files and convert them to > mp3 > > files. > > its great for making audio files to put on your mp3 player. > > > > yes, its free for only today. so hurry over to > > http://www.giveawayoftheday.com > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Rob > > "God is good all the time, & All the time God is good" > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > Michael Thanks You... > TickTalk Publishing Invites You... > And www.ticktalk.net Welcomes You... > Read Our Stories And Have A Better Life! > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael Thanks You... TickTalk Publishing Invites You... And www.ticktalk.net Welcomes You... Read Our Stories And Have A Better Life! Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
