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Re: Text-to-Speech for French
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Petra Ritter <[log in to unmask]>
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* EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:46:05 +0100
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Hello,

ZoomText 7.11 Level 2 does. For Supernova I belive you cann download a
Orpheus in French I haven't  it so I am not sure for free or not.

the URL is www.dolphinuk.co.uk. and on the site is an link Utilities (I
think it called Utilities)

Petra
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Elmer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech for French


> For Text to Speech, I know that JAWS supports multiple languages, thus
> offering more correct, though not perfect, pronunciation.  I don't know if
> Kurzweil, SuperNova, ZoomText, etc. support foreign language pronunciation
> or not.  But it would be easy to find out.
>
>
> John F. Elmer
> Ventura College - EAC
> 4667 Telegraph Road
> Ventura, CA   93003
> 805.654.6400, Ext. 1278
>
> ------------------
>
> Are you inquiring about Speech Recognition, as indicated by your reference
> to Dragon, or Speech to Text, which is referring to a speech engine which
> can
> pronounce French?  If the later, and you have a Screen Reader, or,
> self-voicing Character Recognition program such as Kurzweil 1000, then,
you
> alreay
> have the tools for "text to speech".
>
> W. Nick Dotson
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:01:39 -0500, EILEEN HADDON wrote:
>
> What recommendations do you have for a French text-to-speech program? This
> is for a Windows platform. I know we can get Dragon Naturally Speaking
> for French, but that may be a bit more than is required. Also, with
already
> planning to run DNS for English on the computer system, I don't want to
> overload
> it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eileen Haddon
> Vermont Assistive Technology Project
>
> **********************************************************************
> Eileen C. Haddon, ATP
> Vermont Assistive Technology Project
> Vermont Technical College
> Randolph Center, VT  05061
> Phone: 802-728-1520 / Fax: 802-728-1390
>
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>
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>
>
> W. Nick Dotson
> Support Technician for Kurzweil 1000
>
>

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