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Claude Almansi

Official Google Blog: "In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text... - 0 views

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    With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find.
Paul Beaufait

Translate and Speak - 8 views

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    "ImTranslator offers a natural sounding text-to-speech system with translation capabilities that quickly translates text and reads it aloud at one click of a button." Thanks to Isabelle for pointing it out in a recent presentation that she has posted on her blog, Supporting EAL Learners in the MFL Classroom, Edge Hill University, Monday 21st October 2013.
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    "ImTranslator offers a natural sounding text-to-speech system with translation capabilities that quickly translates text and reads it aloud at one click of a button."
Paul Beaufait

ReadPlease - Home - Text-to-speech software that lets your computer talk - *HG* - 0 views

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    "award-winning text-to-speech software for Windows® based operating systems" (2008.11.24).
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    Windows, only, or so it seems
Claude Almansi

Allow Everyone Access to E-books - Reading Rights Coalition's petition - 0 views

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    Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2. The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd
Claude Almansi

Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube - Ken Harrenstien, Nov. 19, 09 - 7 views

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    "However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me. To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time. In addition to automatic captions, we're also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don't have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."
Martin Burrett

Sound of Text - 3 views

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    "Listen or download audio of 100 characters of text in many different languages. Perfect for language students engaged in self-directed study."
Martin Burrett

TalkTyper - 11 views

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    A useful site that allows users to dictate and generate text. A great resource for children with writing difficulties to get their ideas written quickly. It works with a range of languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and more. For mistakes, the site offers alternative words with similar pronunciation. Only works with Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Nergiz Kern

YouTube - Automatic Captions in YouTube Demo - 7 views

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    Automatic captions in YouTube in many languages PLUS: You can type up your own captions and upload and YouTube times them automatically through text-to-speech. Then, you can download the text file with the timings next to the captions. If this really works, wow!
International School of Central Switzerland

Convert any text to speech with iSpeech - 0 views

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    Contacted company to find out whether it would support foreign languages (doubtful but it is worth checking)
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    paste text in the box, and hear it read. Free for personal use.
adina sullivan

Read The Words - 0 views

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    Thx to Wes Fryer for link - "free text to speech converter for PDF files, word processing documents, webpages, and more - looks great for converting articles I want to read into mp3 files I can listen to on the go"
Barbara Lindsey

ReadSpeaker webReader - 7 views

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    Reads text to speech on your web site. Free for individual blog accounts with 9 languages and 18 voices to chose from.
Heide DeMorris

Free internet audio mp3 player for personal websites| AudioPal - 8 views

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    A free tool that lets you embed an audio message into your website  You can record a message by phone or mic, use the text-to-speech feature, or upload your own mp3 audio files.   You can even choose from 25 languages and 100+ voices.    Very cool indeed. 
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