Sorry but 4blind mice is an audible mouse. Saypad is a talking text editor and Metris is a Music game. All these offerings can be had from:
http://inspiredcode.net *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/25/2004 at 1:10 PM nick danger wrote: >Hi Shannon, > >4 blind mice is a computer game. SayPad is a text to speech program that >can convert written text to mp3 audio and narrate it with microsoft's sapi >5 >speech synthesis. It's not the best sounding thing in the world though, >but >it works. > >Tony >----- Original Message ----- >From: "shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:46 PM >Subject: Re: multimedia question > > >> Tony, >> Thank you for the response. >> I tried to click on the link you provided and it didn't work. I did >however >> go out to Ask.com and looked for saypad and it has taken me to another >place >> that says it has this download and another called four blind mice. What >> exactly is Saypad and four blind mice? >> This sight doesn't give allot of info on what ever these are. >> Shannon >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "nick danger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:37 AM >> Subject: Re: multimedia question >> >> >> > Hi shannon, >> > >> > I know of one program that will convert your text to an mp3. Go to >> > http://www.inspirecode.net and pick up the version of a program called >> > SayPad that applies to the computer system you have. Hope this helps. >> > >> > Tony >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:28 AM >> > Subject: Re: multimedia question >> > >> > >> > > Well, sorry I do not know how to convert a text file to mp3. I work >> with >> > > audio and converting cassettes and making mp3 files. I wish I knew >the >> > > other things you are trying to do. But text conversion to spech is >not >> > what >> > > I do myself. It's not that I do not wish ot, it's just one thing I >> don't >> > > know about. When I do talking books, I set the bit rate to 32 so I >can >> > fit >> > > a long books or a series of short ones onto a disc. For music >however, >> I >> > > use a higher bit rate. >> > > >> > > Mimi >> > > >> > > >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:17 AM >> > > Subject: Re: multimedia question >> > > >> > > >> > > > Mimi, >> > > > Please excuse this question if this should be a no brainer. >> > > > I am new to all of this recording stuff.When you said that the bit >> rate >> > > was >> > > > 32 for talking books is that the origional bit rate for recording? >> > > > If you will allow me to tell you what I do know (Which is not much) >> > maybe >> > > > you could fill me in. >> > > > I know that I have a book in text format. I want to make it a MP3. >I >> > > > downloaded a trial version of "Text aloud". >> > > > Now start the questions is this where the 32 bit part comes in? >Once >> I >> > > have >> > > > made an MP3 what settings are needed to burn this to a mini disk >> walkman >> > > so >> > > > this book could have legs? >> > > > I am sorry if this was too long of a subject. >> > > > Shannon >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:27 PM >> > > > Subject: Re: multimedia question >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > Hello, Tony, >> > > > > >> > > > > What the person who did the encoding did was set the bit rate to >32; >> > > that >> > > > is >> > > > > the reason they got 50 hours of material on one CD in mp3 form. >I >> > > encode >> > > > > all the time, and do this for talking books, which is just >someone >> > > reading >> > > > a >> > > > > book anyway. Of course, for music, a much higher rate is >> preferable, >> > so >> > > I >> > > > > do my music in 128 to 192. Above and the mp3 files would be much >> too >> > > big. >> > > > > I mp3 classical and pop music so this is understandable. Hope I >> have >> > > > > answered your query. Anytime someone puts around 50 hours of >stuff >> on >> > a >> > > > CD, >> > > > > they have used the smallest bit rate setting. >> > > > > >> > > > > Mimi >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > > From: "nick danger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:08 PM >> > > > > Subject: multimedia question >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > Hi yall, >> > > > > >> > > > > Maybe somebody can answer this one because I'm just not sure of >> > this. >> > > > > Here's my quandry. >> > > > > >> > > > > I am a bunch of mp3's on my hard drive and I've got nero 5.5 as >my >> rom >> > > > > burner. A friend of mine gave me a disk with about 50 hours >worth >> of >> > > > stuff >> > > > > on it. I wonder if this compilation was made with a different >type >> of >> > > cd. >> > > > I >> > > > > know you can store all kinds of material on a dvd rom but this >> wasn't >> > > one >> > > > of >> > > > > those. What type of blank media is that and can nero work with >it? >> > I'm >> > > > > going to be stripping this computer soon and installing win2k on >it. >> > > > Thanks >> > > > > for helping in advance guys and dolls. >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > Tony >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > > > > >> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > > > > >> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > > > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > > > >> > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > > >> > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] My Live Journal http://djc1.livejournal.com email Or Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I C Q Number Is: 4781694 Join Me for Great Oldies on Saturday Evenings. www.oldiesradionet.com for the Schedule and Information. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]