Listen Up: Overview of Text to Speech Software Dan Comden University of Washington.

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Listen Up: Overview of Text to Speech Software Dan Comden University of Washington

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Listen Up: Overview of Text to Speech SoftwareDan Comden

University 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