Hi Antonio,

Why don't you try WordAloud?  There's a free evaluation copy
to download from www.wordaloud.co.uk.  Although the voices may
appear a bit robotic, you get used to them very quickly (Jonathan's
voice is best of the selection) and there is reasonably good
prosody.  If you have any complaints, let me know.  But let me
warn you that it's British English!

WordAloud has a word-at-a-time display in large characters.
which you can have synchronised to the speech or running
by itself.  You can read text files and web pages stored in the
computer.  WordAloud is very simple to use, and is suitable
for people of any age, with any kind of reading problem - be it
deteriating eyesight, dyslexia, or a learning difficulty.
In fact we've sold WordAloud to schools as a teaching aid
to help stuggling readers.

BTW, there's a special offer until 12th September.

Cheers,

John

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>   Hi listers,
>
>   Does anybody have experience with a good quality text-to-speech program?
>   I know that all screen readers for the blind have such facilities, but
>few have a good prosody; many of them for example mark the end of line with
>lower voice pitch, as if there were a period or a pause. This decreases
>comprehension and makes the speech somwhot odd and difficult to grasp at
>first listening.
>
>   Thakns for any advice and tip
>
>     Antonio Quatraro

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