[Athen] Athen Digest, Vol 41, Issue 26

[sozi1 at mscd.edu]

Hi Jackie,
I personally use Textaloud and recommend it ot our students for Dollar reasons.
It is user friendly and well enough for windows based mp3 players.
If you have apple and runing leopard it 's bulit in text to speech function is working pretty well and syncing nice on apple products.
thanks.

Selim Ozi 

Adaptive Technology support. 
Metropolitan state college of Denver
Access center. 

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> 1. Re: iPhone OS 3.0 (Shelley Haven) 

> 2. Favorite Text to Audio Converter (Dutot, Jacqueline) 

> 3. Re: Favorite Text to Audio Converter (Nettie Fischer) 

> 4. Re: Favorite Text to Audio Converter (Lorna Saiz) 

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> Message: 1 

> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:47:15 -0700 (PDT) 

> From: Shelley Haven <rmhaven at stanford.edu> 

> Subject: Re: [Athen] iPhone OS 3.0 

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> If I'm not mistaken, it's not a matter of Apple enabling these 

> features on the earlier iPhone or iPod Touch via software -- it's 

> that the features require the internal hardware of the newer 

> iPhone to work. While the iPhone 3G and 3GS look identical on the 

> outside, the internal workings are very different. In essence, 

> Apple enables those features by providing a new piece of hardware - 

> - the 3GS -- capable of running them. 

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> And if I am mistaken...please correct me. <grin> 

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> - Shelley Haven 

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> From: "Christopher Doucet" <christopher.doucet at gmail.com> 

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> <athen at athenpro.org>Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:49:21 AM GMT 

> -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 

> Subject: [Athen] iPhone OS 3.0 

> 

> Apple has released the new OS, but with several huge drawbacks... 

> 

> VoiceOver is not available on the iPod Touch or iPhone. One must 

> purchase the iPhone 3Gs in order to use the screenreader. Voice 

> Control 

> is also exclusive to the 3Gs (which Apple made clear at last 

> week's 

> conference). 

> Other exclusive features include the ability to record and edit 

> video. 

> 

> Be forewarned! If this is the only reason that you are interested 

> in 

> purchasing the updated OS for your device, wait until enough of us 

> complain and Apple enables these features. 

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> Chris Doucet 

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> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:54:49 -0500 

> From: "Dutot, Jacqueline" <Jacqueline.Dutot at capella.edu> 

> Subject: [Athen] Favorite Text to Audio Converter 

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> Hello ATHENS folks, 

> 

> I was wondering if anyone has a favorite text to audio converter 

> they really like. I would like to use it to create audio files of 

> textbook chapters for learners, so I'd like it to convert both 

> Word and PDF files and be reasonably priced. The only one I've 

> ever used is SpokenText.net and I'm curious what others use and 

> like. Thanks for being a valuable source of AT knowledge for this 

> rookie. <smile> 

> 

> Thanks, 

> Jackie 

> 

> 

> Jackie Dutot, M.A. 

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> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:11:12 -0700 

> From: Nettie Fischer <nettiet at gmail.com> 

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> HI Jackie, 

> 

> I have used TextAloud to convert pdf files to wav files for audio 

> output. I 

> also purchased 2 AT & T voices that load into TextAloud. The 

> transfer if 

> easy and, I tested it on a full book that was in pdf format. 

> 

> I have used Natural Reader and, the main reason I select TextAloud 

> was the 

> dollar factor ( I think it was $59 while natural reader is $99. 

> 

> Nettie 

> 

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dutot, Jacqueline < 

> Jacqueline.Dutot at capella.edu> wrote: 

> 

> > Hello ATHENS folks, 

> > 

> > I was wondering if anyone has a favorite text to audio converter 

> they> really like. I would like to use it to create audio files 

> of textbook 

> > chapters for learners, so I'd like it to convert both Word and 

> PDF files and 

> > be reasonably priced. The only one I've ever used is 

> SpokenText.net and I'm 

> > curious what others use and like. Thanks for being a valuable 

> source of AT 

> > knowledge for this rookie. <smile> 

> > 

> > Thanks, 

> > Jackie 

> > 

> > 

> > *Jackie Dutot, M.A.* 

> > *Disability Services Associate-Assistive Technology* 

> > 

> > *Toll Free:* 1-888-CAPELLA, x5926 

> > *Fax:* 612-977-5060 

> > *E-mail:* 

> *DisabilityServices at capella.edu*<DisabilityServices at capella.edu>> 

> > *Capella University* 

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> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:46:32 -0700 

> From: Lorna Saiz <lornas at csufresno.edu> 

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Favorite Text to Audio Converter 

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> Hi Jackie, 

> We've used TextAloud, Natural Reader, ReadPlease, and VLC media 

> player. TextAloud using AT&T voices 

> are favorite program, and of course Natural Reader Enterprise 

> works just as well. Hope this helps. 

> 

> Lorna Saiz 

> Accessible Technology Coordinator 

> Services for Students with Disabilities 

> California State University, Fresno 

> University Center Room 5 M/S ML125 

> Ph: 559.278.2811 - Fax: 559.278.4214 

> lornas at csufresno.edu 

> http://www.csufresno.edu/ssd 

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> From: Nettie Fischer <nettiet at gmail.com> 

> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:14 pm 

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Favorite Text to Audio Converter 

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network 

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> > HI Jackie, 

> > 

> > I have used TextAloud to convert pdf files to wav files for 

> audio 

> > output. I 

> > also purchased 2 AT & T voices that load into TextAloud. The 

> > transfer if 

> > easy and, I tested it on a full book that was in pdf format. 

> > 

> > I have used Natural Reader and, the main reason I select 

> TextAloud 

> > was the 

> > dollar factor ( I think it was $59 while natural reader is $99. 

> > 

> > Nettie 

> > 

> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dutot, Jacqueline < 

> > Jacqueline.Dutot at capella.edu> wrote: 

> > 

> > > Hello ATHENS folks, 

> > > 

> > > I was wondering if anyone has a favorite text to audio 

> converter 

> > they> really like. I would like to use it to create audio files 

> > of textbook 

> > > chapters for learners, so I'd like it to convert both Word and 

> > PDF files and 

> > > be reasonably priced. The only one I've ever used is 

> > SpokenText.net and I'm 

> > > curious what others use and like. Thanks for being a valuable 

> > source of AT 

> > > knowledge for this rookie. <smile> 

> > > 

> > > Thanks, 

> > > Jackie 

> > > 

> > > 

> > > *Jackie Dutot, M.A.* 

> > > *Disability Services Associate-Assistive Technology* 

> > > 

> > > *Toll Free:* 1-888-CAPELLA, x5926 

> > > *Fax:* 612-977-5060 

> > > *E-mail:* 

> > 

> *DisabilityServices at capella.edu*<DisabilityServices at capella.edu>> 

> > > *Capella University* 

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> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:20 -0400 

> From: "Crabb, Nolan" <Crabb.15 at osu.edu> 

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Favorite Text to Audio Converter 

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> If you already have a copy of Kurzweil 1000, why not give that a shot? 

> I've used it to convert PDF, braille files, and of course scanned 

> printmaterial into MP3 audio using the Neospeech voices-Kate and 

> Paul. I 

> very much enjoy converting texts to audio and listening to the 

> audio in 

> a Victor Stream, for example. I'll drop in level one bookmarks at 

> everychapter and create separate audio files for each chapter. Of 

> course,you can do that on a per-page basis if you need to get that 

> granular.Indeed, you can bookmark that book any way you want, and 

> then create 

> separate audio files based on your bookmarking plan. It might be 

> impractical to do, but you could even bookmark each paragraph. 

> Normally, for the kind of personal reading I'm doing, I'm content to 

> bookmark chapters. The Neospeech Kate voice is a personal 

> favorite of 

> mine, and I choose the high-quality audio setting to do my conversion. 

> It comes out sounding fine for voice work. 

> 

> 

> 

> The personal philosophical question you have to answer is, do you 

> speedKate up at the Kurzweil end or just let her run normally and 

> then assume 

> the listener will adjust the speed on his or her playback device? 

> I run 

> these at pretty rapid rates through Kurzweil 1000, then just run my 

> Stream at the normal speed. The advantage to that is slightly smaller 

> files. 

> 

> 

> 

> Now I must confess I've never tried this with anything mega- 

> complicatedlike some kind of hard-core math or engineering book. 

> But doing this on 

> reasonably straightforward texts works really quite well, and there 

> really are no audio artifacts or weird sounds that happen as a 

> result of 

> the conversion. 

> 

> 

> 

> It's all a very subjective thing, but I enjoy the Neospeech voices 

> morethan the AT&T ones-less audio fatigue for me, which means the 

> ability to 

> listen longer and retain my interest in what I'm hearing better. 

> 

> 

> 

> Regards, 

> 

> 

> 

> Nolan 

> 

> 

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> Nolan Crabb 

> 

> Director of Assistive Technology 

> 

> The Ohio State University 

> 

> 2054 Drake Center, 1849 Cannon Dr., Columbus, OH 43210 

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