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Old 02-09-2009, 01:06 PM   #1365
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Originally Posted by radleyp View Post
AJ: have you ever listened to a book converted in this manner? It's really quite horrible: no intonation, no modulation, no meaningful silences, and more... I first heard one of the Gutenberg Project texts, and I could not take it for even five minutes. This is good for short expository prose, otherwise you need a real human to read.
The answer is Yes. I have a program that converts TTS into a MP3. It has more sophisticated voices than the standard voices that gutenberg and Microsoft uses. I soooo need to listen to my books versus read them that I get ebooks (either buy or scan my own) so I can convert them. I like to reread my old favorites, and the older books that are not out in audio (duhhh), so I must listen to the electronic voice. The alternative is to record the books myself. I tried that, and lasted about half a page. A performer I am not.

But, as I said, my program uses the newer voices and they are tolerable.

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