I've done something like this but maybe not as spontaneous as you and
your niece are envisioning. I would use Text Aloud on my Windows PC
and generate audio MP3 files for a blind friend to create audio Bible
study lessons. In Text Aloud there are ways of inserting changes in
speech voices, adding pauses, etc. I would use different voices for
the lesson content and the actual scriptures when read within the
lesson. I learned the codes and would work up a document in Word.
Then, I could paste the entire text into Text Aloud and either
generate an immediate reading out or generate an MP3 file.
HTH,
Jeff
At 12:04 PM 12/18/2017, you wrote:
Hi everyone.
This isn't an important matter or anything very serious, but here goes. I
have a niece who's recently become fascinated with my computer and
screen-reader. Although such things are becoming more normal in the sighted
world, it's still a rather novel thing for her, that I can type things into
the computer and have it read them back to her, and so on. She likes the
different voices Vocalizer provides and imagines conversations between them.
What I thought was: it'd be cool to be able to write a script or something
that allows you to switch very easily, say, with a single keystroke, or even
to embed commands to switch voices within a document to have it happen
automatically as the document reads. I know this isn't something that would
really benefit screen-reader users at all; it's just a cute thing that would
make an eight-year-old happy. Of course, I could always record something
with different voices and present it to her, but she likes the spontaneous
approach. I wonder, has anyone ever done something like this? I'd be
interested to hear.
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