Not clear about whether this can be used with third party software (but it
does claim to be SAPI compliant) the AT&T Natural voices synthesizer is
excellent and you can apparently order your own custom voices (no British
voices listed yet though). Hear the demos at
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/
Phil
Phil Satchell
Access Centre Manager, The Open University.
+44 (0)1908 858214
> 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
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> Tel: 01603 773549
>
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