text to speech

Look Who’s Talking: Android Edition

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Thu, 03/17/2011 - 21:59

Adding speech to Android apps isn't nearly as difficult as you would think. "Text to Speech" is a snap with the android.speech.tts package. Continue reading


 

Text-to-Speech Software for Linux

Linux Today  Fri, 03/12/2010 - 16:02

Tech Source: "If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival."


 

Intel spins text-to-speech device for the visually impaired

Linux Today  Wed, 11/11/2009 - 16:33

LinuxDevices: "Designed for visually impaired or dyslexic users, the Atom-based Intel Reader is equipped with a five-megapixel camera for snapping photographs of text, which it then simultaneously displays and reads aloud, says Intel."


 

Kindle 2 vs Reading Disabled Students (Remote Kill Switch)

Linux Today  Thu, 05/14/2009 - 13:03

Knowledge Ecology Notes: "Beginning yesterday, Random House Publishers began to disable text-to-speech remotely.

The TTS function has apparently been remotely disabled in over 40 works so far."