text-to-speech

This is C.S. McClendon’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own:

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Is Windows Vista speech recognition any good? Chris has used almost every speech recognition package, and he has yet to be impressed.

The speed recognition software built into Windows Vista isn't that bad. Of course, it isn't that great either. It does a fair job as long as you have a quality microphone and you speak clearly – no thick New York accents here.

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Someone sent me a link to Natural Voices the other day. Ken White warned me about this “free” piece of software:

These guys are crap. They promote their product as being free with natural voices, but they basically lie. Their product is the same old free trial stuff with the same old bad microsoft voices, you have to buy it to get good voices, just like with our stuff. But, they piss off lots of people with the somewhat false advertising, hooking people in thinking they are getting something free, just to get the upsell to get the voices. We probably get 10 people a week coming to us complaining about them, or asking us for help with products they bought from them that don’t work and they can’t get support.

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