The new Realspeak Jane is *very* English!! Almost Radio 4-like in quality most of the time! Once
you've installed Kurzweil 1000 or 3000 you might be able to the make this voice available to other
screenreader packages installed on the same machine, though this is an expensive solution if the
user doesn't need the full scanning/reading capabilities of K1000 or K3000. It doesn't seem that
other companies have licensed this voice yet.
Also, you can download a free 'British English' speech engine (amongst various other languages)
from
http://www.microsoft.com/products/msagent/downloads.htm#tts
Not as good, but free.
Ian Francis
On 5 Mar 2002 at 14:27, Mervyn Robertson wrote:
> Both Kurzweil 1000 and Kurzweil 3000 have 'RealSpeak' with an English voice,
> but it depends upon your clients' needs as to whether either of these
> products are appropriate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Botwright, Ken [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 05 March 2002 11:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: UK English Screen Reader
>
>
> Some students who I have assessed do not like/cannot understand the speech
> generated by TextHelp, Aladdin Ambassador, DNSP, Zoomtext etc. This is
> because primarily the speech is an unfamiliar American drawl, the words
> appear to merge together and the general clarity is poor.
>
> Is there a screen reader / text to speech engine which offers UK English and
> where the clarity is of acceptable quality ?
> Regards
> Ken Botwright
> [log in to unmask]
> Tel: 01603 773549
>
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