Hi Don,
Text to speech or TTS has become somewhat of an ambiguous term. For
example, the DecTalk and Eloquence speech synthesizers that come with
Window-Eyes are text to speech engines. They are the programs that
generate the actual speech. But they can do nothing on their own. So we
use Window-Eyes to run those programs and send text to them to be
converted into speech. Therefore Window-Eyes is kind of a text to speech
program as well.
More and more of the new cell phones are coming with either TTS included
or the ability to install and run it. And it amounts to the same thing;
a screen-reader and a speech synthesizer. It's just a more basic
screen-reader that allows you to hear key functions, menu items, battery
status, caller information, etc.
Hth,
Tom
On 12/21/2011 9:47 AM, Don S wrote:
Hi Folks:
After using win eyes for many years, all of a sudden, I am not sure what
text to speech is.
Speech throughout win eyes is great and no problem, but is text to
speech something extra from our speech in win eyes or is that that is
running our audio in we?
The reason I am asking is I need a new phone and it looks like a cheap
smart phone pay as you go and text to speech keeps coming up in the info
I am getting.
I know text to speech converts text to audio so is something you do or
it is a choice you need to?
I can download apps to make the phone speak, but, then I think that is
what I have in we.
Just a confused old guy.
Would somebody lift the fog?
Thanks
Don
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