[Athen] Text to Speech Software and Vista 64 bit

[Jeffrey Dell]

Natural Reader 2008 does work on Vista 64.  I've used it on my laptop
running the Home version of Vista 64.  I've used it in Word 2007 and
IE7 and it works fine.  If your colleague just used the TTS reading
features in XP and Office than Natural Reader 2008 is a good free
solution for Vista.  Narrator doesn't read much and does not read MS
Word at all.  All the free version of Natural Reader will do is read
from your clipboard or highlight and read all the text in adocument if
you have not highlighted anything.  There is an upgrade version that
will give you more function in Office programs that does not cost
much.
 Here is the link to the website but you probably already have that.
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
Jeff

On 4/27/09, Ed. Rosenthal <edward at ngtvoice.com> wrote:

> IMHO the speech engine in Windows Vista has always struck me as reasonably

> accurate; to date our biggest challenge has been that there's not a lot of

> user interface, no help files, and the fact that we can only use it in

> Microsoft Word environments for direct dictation has been very limiting.

> Having said that, for people willing to meet it half way (like Linux) I

> think it's viable, and the price is certainly right.  I've put up some

> informational pages starting with

> http://www.ngtvoice.com/products/software/wsr/ and from the right hand

> navigation panel there's some additional information including some of the

> commands at: http://www.ngtvoice.com/products/software/wsr/commands.htm .

> We've not posted information about the macro capability but have done some

> scripting in that regard as well and there are some code samples available

> (see below).

>

>

>

> I also find the product manager's, Rob Chambers, blog helpful... it is

> located at:

>

> http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/default.aspx

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> This document may have been dictated with speech recognition software.

> Please disregard any remaining miscrecognitions.

>

>

>

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Nettie Fischer

> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:45 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Text to Speech Software and Vista 64 bit

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>

>

> I have used the voice recogntion that comes with VISTA but, not on a

> consistent basis.  My findings are that it works but, my typing is still

> faster than dictated text :)  (about 55 - 60 WPM) so,  I have not persued

> using that option.

>

>

>

> Nettie

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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Karlen Communications

> <info at karlencommunications.com> wrote:

>

> The language bar tools are now part of the Vista OS so you should be able to

> use the speech recognition with more applications in Vista. In Programs and

> Features it is under Speech or you can type "Windows Speech Recognition"

> from the start menu  Cheers, Karen,

>

>

>

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Melanie Thornton

> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:35 PM

> To: athen at athenpro.org

> Subject: [Athen] Text to Speech Software and Vista 64 bit

>

>

>

> Greetings, all!

>

> I have a colleague who was using Reading Bar, but with a recent computer

> upgrade to Vista 64 bit can no longer use it.  Do you know of any

> programs--preferably one that reads the Web as well as common MS

> products--that work with 64 bit?

>

> I sent a message to tech support of Natural Reader but thought some of you

> might have some suggestions.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Melanie

>

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